I Tried To Give Up Drugs By

When He Beat My Mother It Made Me So Mad.

For A While, I Felt A Little Self-impelled To Write Lou Reed Kind Of Songs. I Should Have Understood That A Lou Reed Song Was Anything I Wanted To Write About.

Teach Them About Anger, The Sin That Comes With Dawning. Teach Them About Flowers, And The Beauty Of Forgiveness.

Raymond Chandler Managed To Write About L.a. His Whole Career. Should I Keep Going Writing About New York? Is That What I Should Be Doing? Songwriting Doesn't Work That Way.

When I Was In College, I Had A Jazz Radio Show. I Called It 'excursion On A Wobbly Rail,' After A Cecil Taylor Song. I Used To Run Around The Village Following Ornette Coleman Wherever He Played.