Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely to know anybody else named Rudyard. But having been bitten in my life by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.