In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

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

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

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

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.