Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.