I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd - there's nothing like it.
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.
But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
I've spent several years now with my head down.
You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
I like throwing snowballs at small children.
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
I don't court paparazzi. I definitely don't like that part of it.
I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.
I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.
I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.