Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.
I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
I don't read music. I don't write or read music.
