When I Was A Kid, I Always

I Do Not Want A Personal Relationship With My Fans. Or To Do Anything That Encourages Them To Think They Have One With Me. They Can Have A Personal Relationship With My Songs. That's Fine, But They Don't Know Me.

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.

I Felt So Liberated When I First Saw Charles Mee’s 'the Glory Of The World' At Bam Play, Because For Me This Is The Gateway To Contemplation, Or This Is The Gateway To Love, Or This Is The Gateway To Faith, Not Sitting And Reading A Book By An Isolated Monk, God Bless Him. This Is.

Sometimes It Will Be For More Money Than I've Ever Been Offered Before. I Mean, Am I An Idiot Again For Not Doing That?

I Feel Like, For Me, Reading Thomas Merton Is Like “wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn’t A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself”. When You're A Ways Into It, You're Five Pages In, 20 Pages In, 30 Pages In, It Seems Like One Of The More Oxymoronic Undertakings You Could Attempt.