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With Women, You Always Have To Make An Educated Decision To Figure Out What They're Thinking. It's Not One That's Necessarily Sympathetic, Always. Of Course, We're All Human Beings, But The Gender Thing Is Big Thing. And A Great Thing.

I Need To Go Someplace Faraway That Doesn't Have Telephones And Doesn't Have A Record Player And Doesn't Have Movie Theaters And People Walking Down The Street In Order To Not Do Anything.

Writing Songs Is A Profession; So It's Not An Attempt To Take Things From My Interactions With Other People And For Some Reason Give Them To A Total Stranger To Listen To. I Find It Offensive To Hear Other People Do That.

The Less People Present In An Urgent Situation That A Moderately High Stakes Recording Session Can Create - The Less People There Are In The Room - The More Openness There Can Be. These Songs Share That As Well, In Addition To Just The Obvious, Basic Starkness.

Too Much Emphasis Is Put On American Roots Music When People Try And Place Me. You Know, I Grew Up Listening To Punk.