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 have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

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.

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.