I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

I didn't think I had much of a following in the South. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the South. But I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable and I just hit a wig store.

I see music as fluid architecture.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed