 Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it. |
| I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies. |
| I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone. |
| I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore. |
| It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. |
| A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. |
| The truth is overrated. |
| Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do. |
| It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought. |
| Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. |
| I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard. |
| So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun. |
| I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. |
| Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing. |
| Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. |
| I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. |
| Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. |
| Stick with your heart and you'll be fine. |
| The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. |
| I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop. |
