I've Been On Every Interstate Highway In

By The Time I Wrote Those First Three Songs For His New Cd ... I Wanted To Push The Poetics As Hard As I Could Push Them, And Not Decide The Songs Were Finished Until I Committed Them To Whatever The Recording Format Was. I Went Through Drafts Right Up Until I Recorded Every Single One Of Them.

I Ain't Ever Satisfied.

Records Are Only One-dimensional. Even Film Is Only One-dimensional. That's Why Music And Live Theatre Is So Important, Because It's Not The Same Thing. A Recording Is Just A Record Of Part Of The Experience, But It's Not The Whole Experience.

My Dad Was In A Wheelchair And On Oxygen For The Last Few Years Of His Life.

Songwriters Are Expanding Time Rather Than Compressing Time. My Short Stories Tend To Be Old Fashioned, With A Beginning, Middle And End.