I'll just carry on being a dated flower child.
I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
I've still got a twinkle in me.
Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.
No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area.