I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.
I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.