It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.

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

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

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.

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

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.