I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.
I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.