When I Was A Kid, I Always

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.

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

I Don't Know The Reasons Why Something Is Intimidating To Me Or Disgusting To Me And I Don't Like Feeling That Way, Either. I Don't Like It When Something Turns Me Off, On Any Level. So, Its A Matter Of Saying: Well, I Can Either Sit Here And Reject, Or I Can Do Double-time Embracing Of Something Else Just To Reassure Myself That I'm Not Against The World.

I Have A Mantra That Kind Of Explains My Feelings On This Subject, Which Is, "the Past Is The Present Is The Future." When You're Recording Something, You're Making Something That Will Exist In The Future.

I Don't Like Going To Cities. I Don't Mind Maybe Being In A City Sometimes For A Few Hours, But I Pretty Much Don't Like Cities. I Don't Even Like Passing Through Them.