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'm a painter first, and a musician second.

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

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

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

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.