Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

I don't see music as working.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention namesbut I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.