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"It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft."
"I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced."
"The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die."
"What I do as a songwriter is a constant force in my life, that I'm grateful to have."
"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena."
"I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?"
"I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses."
"You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready."
"Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is."
"It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)"
"I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life."
"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say."
"I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad."
"We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine."
"When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen."
"I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it"
"I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there"
"I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness."
"I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that."
"I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it."