I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

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

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

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.

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.