Sometimes It Will Be For More Money

I Write A Song To Be Recorded. And To Some Extent To Be Performed, But Definitely More To Be Recorded Than Performed, Because The Recording Will Last Longer Than A Performance.

I Don't Think That Word - The Word Pirate - Has Any Real Meaning. Or It's Something That's Had Meaning Imposed On It.

When You're Listening To A Recording, You're Supposedly Listening To Some Aspect Of The Past In The Present As You Travel Slowly Into The Future, But You Also Know There's A Very Strong Likelihood That The Future Of That Recording, Whether You Made It Or Whether You're Listening To A Led Zeppelin Record, Is Going To Continue Probably Far Beyond Where You Are.

I Valued The Experience Of Making The Recordings, And I Value The Performances Contained Therein, And I Value So Much Of What They Can Represent. I Also Think They're A Terrific Listening Experience. Putting Them Out This Way Was A Way Of Trying To Maintain And Nurture The Relationship With The Audience And Also Shine A Light On The Recent Past, Because We Are So Apt To Be Forgetful As Human Beings That There Was Such A Thing As A Recent Past. These Are Some Of The Reasons For Making This Record.

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.