 I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? |
| We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. |
| Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. |
| There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. |
| You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. |
| Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. |
| Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. |
| I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. |
| I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. |
| I can't remember anything I ever wrote. |
