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

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

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

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.

I believe in nature instead of God.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.