I'm Not The Type To Turn To

My Dad And I Had A Real Meeting Of The Minds. We Loved To Talk About Music, Politics, And Art. He Loved Children. The Thing I Missed Most About My Dad When He Died Was That This Person Who Really Gets Who I Am At The Core Was Gone.

Being In Vietnam Changed Him [johnny Cash] Fundamentally. He Was Devastated When We Went Into Iraq.

Like Thornton Wilder Said, Time Is Not A River, But Rather A Landscape That You Step In And Out Of. I've Always Found That True Of Creative Work, And I've Heard So Many Songwriters And Writers In General Say The Same Thing... When You're Going Into The Realms Of Your Self And Trying To Tap Into The Mystery Of This Creative Source, Linear Time Kind Of Falls Away.

I Couldn't Listen To Music With Lyrics For The First Few Months After The Brain Surgery, Because They Were Too Complex And Disturbing. So I Listened To A Lot Of Classical Music. I Didn't Really Want To Read, Either, So I Listened To Books On Tape Or Watched Movies. I Also Re-taught Myself All Of My Childhood Piano Pieces. It Helped Me Repair My Brain.

Documenting One's Life In The Midst Of Living It Is A Strange Pursuit.