I know my generation – a lot of them, they’re getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, ‘Yeah, we were the best.’ That’s the kiss of death. That’s non-growth. And also that’s very bad for the world.
The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don’t think this is heavy.
But now it’s just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don’t let them know, don’t give yourself away.
I’m your biggest fan, California, I’m coming home.
When the spirit of child’s play enters into the creative process, it’s a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
I’m not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.
My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.
I can’t remember anything I ever wrote.
Do you want – do you want – do you want to dance with me baby?
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.
I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.
Unlike some of my peers, I haven’t really hit a writer’s block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.
I wish I had a river I could skate away on?
It’s life’s illusions that I recall, I really don’t know life at all.