All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.