When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.