Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.