Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.