I Love British Humor. It's Just So

I Enjoy Recording Live Better, But I Think By The Nature Of It You Are Going To End Up With Something That's A Little Bit More Traditional.

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

When My Nephew Was 3 And 4, He Would Say The Most Genius Things. He Said, You're Hammer Macho With Fbi Dogs. I Thought It Was Just One Of Those Great Lines.

The Years Keep Going By And You Realize, Wow. Doing These Records Is Such A Process: Going On Tour For A Year And A Half, Then You Get Home And You Want To Do Other Things.

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.