I Try To Conduct My Life With

Being Diagnosed With A Possibly Life-threatening Disease Is So Jarring And For Me To Know That God Had Me In His Hands, I Never Felt Alone.

Being Diagnosed With Cancer Really Opened My Eyes To The Fact Anyone Can Have It And That Even Though We Think We Have Control Over Everything In Our Lives, We Don't.

So What If Right Now Everything Is Wrong?

Watch Our Children While They Kill Each Other With Guns They Bought At Wal-mart.

A Song That Sounds Simple Is Just Not That Easy To Write. One Of The Objectives Of This Record Was To Try And Write Melodies That Continue To Resonate...everything That Happens To You Influences Your Writing...the Writing Process For Me Is Pretty Much Always The Same-it's A Solitary Experience...i Have Yet To Write That One Song That Defines My Career...beck Said He Didn't Believe In The Theory Of A Song Coming Through You As If You Were An Open Vessel. I Agree With Him To A Certain Extent.