What We Should Be Doing

If You Write Great Songs With Meaning And Emotion, They Will Last For Ever Because Songs Are The Key To Everything.

I'm 57, I Can't Look Like A 30-year-old. You Try To Hold Age At Bay, But There Comes A Point When You Just Have To Give Up Gracefully.

I Love The Idea Of The Teachings Of Jesus Christ And The Beautiful Stories About It, Which I Loved In Sunday School And I Collected All The Little Stickers And Put Them In My Book. But The Reality Is That Organised Religion Doesn't Seem To Work. It Turns People Into Hateful Lemmings And It's Not Really Compassionate.

When We Started, I Was Delivering Meals To People In Atlanta. We Were A Direct-care Organization. And It Was - People Needed Meals, They Needed Transport, They Needed Medication, They Needed Buddy Systems. They Had A Death Sentence. There Was Azt, And That Was Just Prolonging The Agony, Basically. Now People, Of Course, If They Are On Antiretrovirals, They Face A Lifetime Of Health, Basically. I Mean, It Doesn't - It's I Would Say In The 99 Percent Certainty Bracket That If You Are On That Medication, You Will Have A Healthy Life.

I Don't Have To Compete In The Charts. I Can Just Be Myself As A Musician, A Songwriter And Play With The Musicians That I Really Love.