Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
I can take criticisms but not compliments.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
I don't think anyone really says anything new.
I was a functional addict.
I was in chemical jail.
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
If you feel like singing along, don't.
If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
