Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.