I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On