I Had Long Hair When I Was

Eventually, If You're Experimenting With A Sound That's Unfamiliar, It Gets Absorbed, And Somebody Comes And Does It Better, And It Becomes Part Of A Vocabulary.

I Think It's Interesting Being American, The Expectations For An American Guy, And The Image That Has To Be Projected. 'oh, I Can't Wear Pink,' That Kind Of Stuff. There's None Of That In Europe.

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

There Are People Who've Prepared Their Whole Lives For Real Heavy Success And Bask In It. They're So Good At It And They Obviously Love It. I'm Just Happy To Be Making A Record.

I Have For Four Years Now Been Ringing The Bell. Economic Holocaust Is Coming. Economic Day Of Reckoning Is Coming.