After All Those Years Of Automatic Success,

I Was Eating In A Chinese Restaurant Downtown. There Was A Dish Called Mother And Child Reunion. It's Chicken And Eggs. And I Said, I Gotta Use That One.

How Much Can You Do With Two Voices? You Can Sing Thirds Or You Can Sing Fifths Or You Can Do A Background Harmony.

Philip Larkin Didn't Write For Several Years Before His Life Ended. And When He Was Asked Why He Didn't Write, He Said The Muse Deserted Him. And When I Read That, It Really Had A Profound Effect Upon Me, Sort Of Scared Me. So That's Why I Think I Have No Right To Assume That Some Thought Is Going To Come... But I Think, In My Imagination, If It Is It, There Will Probably Be Something Else I'm Interested In.

Then She Kissed Me And I Realized She Probably Was Right, There Must Be Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover.

Most Of The Time, The Songs Have Jokes In Them, Little Sarcastic Things, Or Purposely Kitsch Or Something. So That's Going Along With A Story, Like I Do In Life, Just Talking To Myself And Making Fun Of Stuff And Laughing At Stuff That's Serious. And Sometimes It's A Good Idea To Put The Laughing Into The Songs. Sometimes It's Not. Sometimes It's All Right Just To Be Serious. But Most Of The Songs Have Some Kind Of Joke In Them.