I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.