Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself. ”

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter. ”

Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song. ”

To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience. ”

Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away. ”

There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs. ”

As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things. ”

As young kids, we had a lot of tenacity. Life was tough at home, so it was easy to go out in the world and try. ”

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. ”

I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation. ”