A Ballad Once In A While Doesn't

The Cliché Of That Sort Of Wasted, Renegade, Drugged-out Musician Of The '70s Is Kind Of Dead And Gone Now. And I Suppose That A Lot Of People Still Keep Relying On That, Or Some Kind Of Image To Perpetuate Something That They Think They're Supposed To Sound Like. But That Kind Of Takes You Away From Real Inspiration And, You Know, Real Artistic Discovery Of The Individual.

Music Reflects The Time That It's Being Made In, And So Certainly, The Music That's Being Made In 1986 By A 14-year-old Kid Will Reflect Some Magic Of 1986 For Him If He's An Inspired And Creative Musician.

All These Fifty-year-old Guys Wearing Baseball Caps And Shorts And Acting Like Children. It Winds Me Up. Men Don't Have To Take Responsibility Anymore. Most Of The Guys I Know Would Punch Me On The Nose For Saying This, But Maybe We Do Have To Bring Back Conscription.

I Expect People To At Least Use Some Thought.

I Don't Want My Children To Be At A Disadvantage, Growing Up In The Limelight, Because Then They Have To Live Up To An Identity Already Cut Out For Them, Relating All The Time To Being So-and-so's Daughter Or So-and-so's Son.