While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which I didn't realize I was doing - but I was storing them all in an attic in my mind somewhere. And when it was time to sit down and write songs, when I reached into the attic to see what I was gonna write about, that's what was there.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.