You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

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.