I'm Lucky To Have Had A Father

Putting Out Commercial Pieces And Promoting Them And Trying To Sell Them To People Is Not Necessarily What It Means To Be An Artist

I Think When People Try To Use Their Art For Political Views, I Think They're Art Becomes Smaller, Less Interesting. And So For Me, As An Artist, I'm Trying To Speak About Things In A Universal Way And Not Be Pedantic Or Small-minded And Try To Convince Other People Of My Political Views. But Having Said That, Every Day I Live In Sort Of Complete Terror Because Of What I Read In The Newspaper And What Is Going On In The World. I'm Constantly, As I Think Many Of Us Are, Overwhelmed By The Sort Of, Mass Psychosis That's Occurring.

My Dad, He's Definitely One Of Greatest Writers Of His Generation. There Is No Question About It. When You Are That Good, When Work Is That Good, You Have To Appreciate Every Aspect Of It. It's The Architecture Of It, It's Like Looking At A Frank Lloyd Wright Building Or A Lautner Building, It's Master Craftsmanship. Every Aspect Of It Intertwines In A Perfectly Harmonious Way. That's What Architecture Is At Its Best And The Architecture Of My Father's Music Is On That Level.

Natural Gas Has Been Sold As Clean Energy. But When The Gas Comes From Fracturing Bedrock With About Five Million Gallons Of Toxic Water Per Well, The Word “clean” Takes On A Disturbingly Orwellian Tone. Don’t Be Fooled. Fracking For Shale Gas Is In Truth Dirty Energy.

I Was Always Nervous To Play My Father's [john Lennon's] Songs.