Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.