Now Why The Hell Would I Want

Popularity Has Everything To Do With Business And Nothing To Do With Music.

I Have A Critical Nature, In The Sense That When I Look At Something I Often Look For The Flaws.

Randy Newman Seemed Like An Even Worse Singer Than Me. I Liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

I Tried To Grow Up. Honest. Didn’t Quite Happen. I Guess I’m Someone For Whom Youth Still Seems More Real Than The Present, Or The Half Century In Between. And Why Not? I'm Deeply Underwhelmed By Most Contemporary Art, Literature, Music, Films, Tv, The Heinous Little Phones, Money Talk, Real Estate Talk, All That Stuff. The Internet, Which At First Seemed So Fascinating, Appears To Be Evolving Into Something Even Worse Than Tv, But We'll See.

I'm Starting To Get Older, And Began To Think About Mortality A Little More. My Mother Died In 2003 And That Was A Big Shock. When Your Parents Start To Die Off, That's Going To Be A Revelation. So For Me, This Album - Although It Might Sound Quite Cheery - Is Really Talking About Death.