I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

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.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.