“What goes through the mind of 75-year-old man singing the words he wrote as a 16-year-old boy?
“Well, I’m not thinking about the same thing I did when I wrote it,” Browne said. “Mainly, I’m thinking about life now. If a song is worth anything, it’s about the life of the listener. And I become a listener, too, when I sing it.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/arts/music/jackson-browne-these-days-nico.html