I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.