I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.
All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.
If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
L. A. 's cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.
Escape is a consumer goods like another
. . . America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way. . . We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.