I Think Most Great Actors Have Their

It's O.k. To Accept Good Fortune.

Every Recording Session And Tour Is A Very Valuable Time To Me In Terms Of Getting To Spend Time With The Musicians - Whether They're Friends And Family Or People I've Just Met - Because I Don't Have A Job Where I Get To Interact With People Everyday.

Writing Songs Is A Profession; So It's Not An Attempt To Take Things From My Interactions With Other People And For Some Reason Give Them To A Total Stranger To Listen To. I Find It Offensive To Hear Other People Do That.

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.

What Is Normally Called Religion Is What I Would Tend To Call Music - Participating In Music, Listening To Music, Making Records And Singing.