The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

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

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.