My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

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

I'm constantly warning people that are involved in my life that I can go busk and make a living. I can make my rent in New York City in the subway, I promise, if I'm forced to.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.