The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.

I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

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