Some People, Myself In Particular, Have An

Rock Music Is The Province Of The Young, And It Should Be Made By Young People. I'm Not Running Around In A Pair Of Spandex Tights Trying To Reclaim My Youth.

I Was Reading The Bible A Lot Through My 20s, Mostly The Old Testament, Just Because I Was Knocked Out By The Language And The Stories. I Felt That The God Being Talked About There, Who Was This Insane, Vindictive Patriarch - It Was Kind Of Thrilling, And Titillated Something In Me At The Time.

He Who Seeks, Finds, And Who Knocks, Will Be Let In.

L.a. Is Full Of Screenwriters. I Don't Know Why. On Many Levels, It's Such A Thankless Occupation.

When I Start To Write A Song, I Initially Fall Into Patterns And Creative Habits That Are Familiar, And Because They're Familiar, They Sound Convincing. It's Important For Me To Not Pursue Those Ideas, Because I've Already Done Them, But To Find Ideas That Are Different And Feel Strange To Write And Disconcerting To Write.