And I Kissed Away A Thousand Tears

I Lost My Innocence With Johnny Cash. I Used To Watch The Johnny Cash Show On Television In Wangaratta When I Was About 9 Or 10 Years Old. At That Stage I Had Really No Idea About Rock'n'roll. I Watched Him And From That Point I Saw That Music Could Be An Evil Thing, A Beautiful, Evil Thing.

Despite What People Might Think, I'm Not Interested In Being Dark All The Time. I'm Actually Searching For Some Kind Of Light, And I'm Always Very Happy When I Can Achieve That.

The Big Problem With Songwriting For Me Is Starting A New Song. It's The Thing Where All The Anguish Exists, Not In The Writing Of The Song, But The Starting Of The New Song.

I Think I Have Always Had A Pretty Strong Creative Impulse. And That Has Probably Saved Me From Abandoning Myself Completely.

Be Mindful Of The Prayers You Send Pray Hard But Pray With Care For The Tears You Are Crying Now Are Just Your Answered Prayers Letters Of Light We Scale Merrily, Move Mysteriously Around So That When You Think You're Climbing Up, Man, In Fact You're Climbing Down