I Don't Think You Can Ever Return,

Whenever There's Chaos, There's Ambiguity, And Where There's Ambiguity, There's Fear. And Fear Gets Manipulated.

When I Was A Kid I Was Not A Good Student. I Went To The University Of Colarado, My Grades Were Poor. I Was Asked To Leave After A Year. What I Really Wanted To Do Was To Be An Artist.

I Was Raised In California During The Second World War And Into The '50s And Everything Was Fine, Everything Was Great. The Sun Always Shone, Everybody Looked Healthy And Wore Ties And Smoked In Restaurants, And There Were Cars For Everybody - Except Us, Because I Came From A Lower Class Neighbourhood. But [in France] I Realised There Was A Different Point Of View, So When I Came Back To America A Year And A Half Later I Was Much More Focused On My Own Country Culturally And Politically.

He's Meant To Be That Classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - A Character Who Goes Out Or Has Some Gift Of Some Kind. He Goes On A Journey Of Discovery And Part Of That Is Falling Into Darkness - The Temptations Of Life.

I Was Seen In Earlier Years By Family Members And People Of Authority As Somebody Wasting His Time. I Had Trouble With The Restrictions Of Conformity. It Made Me Edgy.