'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.