Lord, Spit On Our Eyes That We

I Did A Lot Of Writing For A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Bands That I Was In And Out Of During Those Five Years And That Left Me With A Little Body Of Songs That I Liked Better When I Played Alone, So I Ended Up Going Out Solo And Very Soon Made My First Album.

My Models For Graceful Aging Are Guys Like John Lee Hooker And Mississippi John Hurt, Who Never Stopped Working Till They Dropped, As I Fully Expect To Be Doing, And Just Getting Better As Musicians And As Human Beings.

Though Chains Be Of Gold, They Are Chains All The Same.

And I'm Wondering Where The Lions Are.

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.