Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.