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

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

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

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

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.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.