Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.

We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.