The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.