It's Fair To Say That I Have

Musical Types Tend To Combine The Burden Of The Author With The Burden Of The Actor.

And For So Long, I Had Thought If I Was Going To Write A Song, Or Get "into" Something, I Had To At Least Smoke A Joint Or Something. And That Didn't Work Anymore. Once I Was Fairly Well Cleaned Out, Even A Little Bit Of A Drug Getting Into My Work Threw Me Off Kilter.

Something I Like To Do A Lot Is Just Sit By Water When There’s A Current And Just Stare Into The Water. I Don’t Fish, I Don’t Hunt, I Don’t Scuba, I Don’t Spear, Don’t Boat, Don’t Play Basketball Or Football – I Excel At Staring Into Space. I’m Really Good At That.

When Punk Began To Be A Genre, People Were Going To Go Out And Try To Mine It. Some Of The Better Groups, Like The Ramones And The Sex Pistols, Were Very Artificial.

Well, After Zombie Birdhouse Came Out, I Toured Behind It In The Fall Of 1982, Into The Spring, And In The Summer In The Far East. At That Time, I Found My Work Self-referential; It Was Getting To Be Rock Songs About A Rock Singer Who Lived A Rock Life On The Rock Road, And I Was Starting To Wonder What I Would Be Like To Rent My Own Apartment, What It Would Be Like To Have A Checkbook.