You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.