I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.