Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.