Jackson browne

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and...

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that...

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because...

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what...

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent''s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

I never was a very good singer.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.