I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

If it makes you happy it can't be that bad

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?