Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.

Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.