I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

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