America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

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.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.