It's Definitely Important To Be Open Enough

The Songs Are Not Meant To Be Real Life. They're Meant To Have A Psychic - Rather Than A Factual - Bearing On The Listener. It's Rare That A Song Grounded In Reality Moves Me Because I Don't Feel Like I'm Getting The Whole Story. Songs Are Made To Exist In And Of Themselves, Like A Great James Jones Or Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.

Cities Are Made For Enemies To Destroy.

There's Very Little Admirable About Being A Pirate. There's Very Little Functional About A Pirate. There's Very Little Real About A Pirate.

I Don't Think That Word - The Word Pirate - Has Any Real Meaning. Or It's Something That's Had Meaning Imposed On It.

The First Music I Bought When I Was Nine Or 10 Was Pop Music From The '50s And '60s, Like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, Whatever I Could Get My Hands On. And Then Some Musical Things, Like Camelot, Singing In The Rain And Hair.