Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

This world's a blessing and a beast everyday.

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.