If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.