They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot. - Joni Mitchell

Hejira was an obscure word, but it said exactly what I wanted. Running away, honorably. It dealt with the leaving of a relationship, but without the sense of failure that accompanied the breakup of my previous relationships. I felt that it was not necessarily anybody’s fault. It was a new attitude.

I can put my dukes up now if I have to in life, but out of appreciation for honesty. I won’t settle for anything less in the studio. So much of music is politics. It’s going for the big vote. It amounts to a lot of baby kissing.

I think if you’re healthy, aging can be quite a beautiful process, and I think we’ve created an artificial problem for ourselves.