The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

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

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.