I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I don't have many easy songs.