I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

With every record, there's something you realize about it after the process is done. And you know that's almost always the case.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

And I am happy when I sing.