I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.