Gotta Kick At The Darkness Til It

There Are Some Decision-makers In The World Whose Version Of Sanity Is A Little Different From What I Consider The Right One.

Politics Is A Part Of Life And Art Is About Life. It Doesn't Mean That All The Art Has To Be About Politics - In Fact, Heaven Forbid. But Politics Is A Totally Legitimate Area Of Focus For Any Art, Whether It's Painting Or Songwriting Or Anything Else, As Much As Sex Is, As Much As Spirituality Is, As Much As Any Other Behavior Of People Is.

We All Grow Up With Anger. It's Part Of The Human Condition. But What Do You Do With That? It Seems Obvious To Me That You've Got To Use It For Something, But You Have To Separate It From Your Ego.

I Wear My Shadows Where They're Harder To See, But They Follow Me Everywhere. I Guess That Should Tell Me I'm Traveling Toward Light.

I'd Always Loved Poetry And I'd Always Loved Writing Music And Composing Music, But I Hadn't Thought Of Putting The Two Together Until Around That Time.