I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.