I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

If you love somebody, set them free.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.