Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate. "
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.
Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.
Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.
As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you speak the words out loud, the effect is very different from when you read them. So one needs to do something new with a stage performance, not simply 'tell the story'.