Everyone Wants To Feel That They Matter.

Some Are Exploring The World Through The Subconscious. I've Done That On Occasions For Various Reasons, Whether It Be Illness Or Self Abuse, Or Whatever. Once Things Start To Look Grotesque I Don't Write Them Or Sing Them. I Couldn't Write Them - Making Nightmares Into Living Daylight...the Minute It Gets Dark I Shoot Back, Retreat.

Certainly Being Proficient In An Instrument Does Have Its Problems. Because The Better You Get, The More You Just Start Sounding Like An Ordinary Guitarist. There Are Certainly Guitarists That Transcend That And Do Really Find Their Sound And All That Sort Of Stuff.

Sorrow's Child Grieves Not What Has Passed, But All The Past Still Yet To Come.

When I’m Singing “deanna,” For Example, Which I Sing Pretty Much Every Night, It Brings Forward A Kind Of Imagined, Romanticized Lie About This Particular Person, Which I Find Really Comforting And Exciting To Sing About.

Musicians Are At The Bottom Of The Creative Pyramid And Authors Are At The Top, And Many People Think It's Unacceptable For Someone To Attempt To Jump From The Bottom To The Top Of The Pyramid.