Everything That Is Strong In Me Has

As A Kid Growing Up In The 1950s I Became Acutely Aware Of The Changes Taking Place In American Culture And I Must Say I Didn't Much Like It. I Witnessed The Debasement Of Architecture, And I Could See A Decline In The Quality Of Things Like Comic Books And Toys, Things Made For Kids. Old Things Seemed To Have More Life, More Substance, More Humanity In Them.

I Don't Do Album Covers Or Cd Covers For Groups Or Musicians I Don't Like Or Have No Interest In.

I'm Into Old-time Music, I'm Not Very Interested In Modern, Popular Music At All. And If I'm Really Into Some Particular Old-time Musician, Some Fiddler Or Banjo Player, I'm Always Dying Of Curiosity To See What They Look Like.

I Lose Patience With Long Stories. I Get People Who Go, "crumb, Do Some Long Stories, Do A Graphic Novel." Novel-schmovel.

You Don’t Have Journalists Over There Anymore, What They Have Is Public Relations People. That’s What They Have Over In America Now. Two-hundred And Fifty Thousand People In Public Relations. And A Dwindling Number Of Actual Reporters And Journalists.