The Reason Music Became So Powerful To

Part Of It Is, I Think, Just To Let People Know You've Got A Record Out There And That You're Still Alive Requires More Work Than It Used To, Because The Traditional Radio, Bug Chains Of Record Stores, All Of That, That Doesn't Exist Anymore.

The Stupidest Thing That A Writer Can Do Is Write A Memoir I Think, Unless It's Right Before You Die -- Maybe.

Fundamentalism, As Practiced By The Taliban, Is The Enemy Of Real Thought, And Religion, Too.

We're Americans. I Don't Consider Us To Be Evil, I Just Don't Think We Know Any Better. We're A Really Young Culture. We're Hillbillies, And The Rest Of The World Sees Us That Way. I Travel All Over The World, And Probably The Only Worse Rednecks Than Us Are The Australians. And They're An Even Younger Country.

My Therapist Says That I Choose Women That I Couldn't Possibly Succeed In A Relationship With Because I Really Want To Be Alone. Which Sounds Complicated And Convoluted To Me, But I Don't Know. Maybe She's Right. There's A Part Of Me That Wants That.