How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.

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

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

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

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.