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I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

You Spend So Many Months And Years In The Studio, And You See The Clock Ticking And So Much Time Spent On The Minutiae Of Technical Things. And I Just Thought It'd Be Fun To Do Something Extremely Fast And Get That Rush Of Something That Had Some Energy, Something That You Weren't Tired Of When You Finished It.

I Think You Have To Keep A Childlike Quality To Play Music Or Make A Record.

I've Said For Years To Wives And Mothers, You Must Start To See Yourself As Sarah Connor. You Must Equip Your Children With The Information They Need To Survive An Ever-changing World.

Art Is The Child Of Nature; Yes, Her Darling Child, In Whom We Trace The Features Of The Mother's Face, Her Aspect And Her Attitude.