There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. You can get away with that your 20s, but not in your 60s, and I'll be 70 next year. Life is a small space now, much more intimate. I'm not out there in the world anymore, but I'm watching.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.