What Is The Impulse That Drove To

I Had No Proof That I Had The Stuff To Be An Artist, Though I Hungered To Be One.

For I Desired, As Youth Does, To Be Taken By The Hand And Hurled Into The World.

I Don't Know Why, The Very First Word On My Very First Record Is 'jesus.' I Still Invoke Him As An Entity To Reckon With.

In The Period Where I Had To Live The Life Of A Citizen - A Life Where, Like Everybody Else, I Did Tons Of Laundry And Cleaned Toilet Bowls, Changed Hundreds Of Diapers And Nursed Children - I Learned A Lot.

We Go Through Life. We Shed Our Skins. We Become Ourselves.