I Had A Really Happy Childhood -

In 1974, When I Started Working With The Material That Became Horses, A Lot Of Our Great Voices Had Died. We'd Lost Jimi Hendrix And Jim Morrison And Janis Joplin, And People Like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King And Malcolm X.

I Remember When You Were Born, It Was Dawn And The Storm Settled Near My Belly. And I Rolled In The Grass And Spit Out The Gas, And I Lit A Match And The Void Went Flash. And The Sky Split And The Planets Hit, Balls Of Jade Dropped And Existence Stopped.

My Public Life Was So Demanding That I Wasn't Doing The Things That I Deemed The Most Important.

I'm Not Really A Nostalgic Person.

For I Desired, As Youth Does, To Be Taken By The Hand And Hurled Into The World.