Shedding Off One More Layer Of Skin,

I'm Not A Playwright. The People In My Songs Are All Me.

In The Home Of The Brave, Jefferson Turning Over In His Grave.

Early On, Before Rock 'n' Roll, I Listened To Big Band Music - Anything That Came Over The Radio - And Music Played By Bands In Hotels That Our Parents Could Dance To. We Had A Big Radio That Looked Like A Jukebox, With A Record Player On The Top. The Radio/record Player Played 78rpm Records. When We Moved To That House, There Was A Record On There, With A Red Label. It Was Bill Monroe, Or Maybe It Was The Stanley Brothers. I'd Never Heard Anything Like That Before. Ever. And It Moved Me Away From All The Conventional Music That I Was Hearing.

The Motorcycle Black Madonna Two Wheeled Gypsy Queen.

It's Always Disappointing When People Decide For One Reason Or Another That They Don't Like Your Work Anymore, But You Can't Try To Please People, Because Then You're Just Going To Be Doing - You'll Never Live It Down, Y'know It'll Always Be Dogging You Around - You Might Be Being A Fake About The Whole Thing.