I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.