I Had Everything I Need To Get

At Home, I'm Lucky If I Can Write Three Or Four Hours Before The Phone Starts Ringing And The Kids Want To Go To Soccer.

The Idea That Murder Victims' Families Are Best Served By Continuing The Cycle Of Violence Is Something That I Consider To Be Not Only A Lie, But Criminally Negligent. You Lie To Victims' Families When You Tell Them They're Going To Receive Closure If They Participate In The Process And Witness The Execution Of A Human Being.

I Don't Separate Writing Songs From Poetry And Short Fiction. In The Area Where I Work In My House, There's A Word Processor And A Guitar.

I'm A Very Disciplined Person When It Comes To My Work, But Discipline Can't Save M From Being A Drug Addict.

By The Time I Wrote Those First Three Songs For His New Cd ... I Wanted To Push The Poetics As Hard As I Could Push Them, And Not Decide The Songs Were Finished Until I Committed Them To Whatever The Recording Format Was. I Went Through Drafts Right Up Until I Recorded Every Single One Of Them.