What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.
I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me.
I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.
We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People. . . you can't fix stupid!
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.