Especially In Music, You Wonder, Okay, Should

Just Out Of Curiosity, I Wonder What Makes Music Or Culture Or Taste Go In Certain Directions. Who Knows What The Forces Are Behind 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.

There's More Well-known Artists Who Aren't Making As Good Songs As People Who Are Just Coming Out Of Nowhere. That Seems To Be More Typical In The Last Few Years Than Ever.

You Have To Shelve A Lot Of Your Inspiration. There's Only So Much You Can Do With One Record.

I've Done So Many Albums Where I've Been In The Studio For 14 Hours A Day For Six Months Just Trying To Come Up With Things On My Own. It's A Nice Change Helping Other People With Their Music And Not Being All About What I'm Trying To Do Myself.