“What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting… I wanted to be part of it.”

But then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, “I have to write some of my kind of songs now.”

I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with.

There’s no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn’t been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you’ll look cool, I don’t get that. But I don’t watch standup anyway, so I don’t know what they’re doing.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

But I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.

I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.