Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything I don't advocate anything I just live with it.
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover I buy it if I like the name of the band anything that sparks my imagination.
I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover I buy it if I like the name of the band anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family your lover your wife and at a certain point with your children.
Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
My image had always been very heterosexual very straight. So it was a nice experience for me a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
For me I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.