We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.