No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

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.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.