Somebody Else Is Satisfied By Five Bentleys.

It's So Easy To Criticize Your Own Time, And I See That As A Problem, Even For Myself, As A Listener.

[early On,] The Attitude Was That What I Was Doing Wasn't Music.

There's Some Quality You Get When You're Not Totally Comfortable. When You're Not Doing What You're Used To, You Could Completely Fall On Your Face. You Could Completely Blow It.

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

I Just Go In The Studio And Write On The Spot And See What Comes Out.