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I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it.

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If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

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When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good... depending on how it's going that day.

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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

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I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

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I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 5th, 1946

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