Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.