You Can't Write If You Can't Relate.

When You Say 'state' You Mean 'national.' National Socialism. That Is What Mussolini And Hitler Did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've Changed The Name.

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

Whatever You Do Has To Be Commercial And It Can't Be Too Distracting - It Has To Be Background Music, Basically.

I'm Always Looking For Older Equipment And Ways Of Recording, But You Can't Escape The Fact That It's All Going To Be Digitized And Reduced. I Do Think Music Sounds Better When It's On Tape And More Simply Recorded. I've Been Arguing With People For 10 Years About Tape Versus Digital, And I Believe Tape Is Absolutely Essential In Getting The Sound That's Conducive To The Enjoyment Of Music. I Wonder If It's Going To Go Back To That. Sometimes I Think It Has To. As Music Becomes More Computer-based, It's Lost Some Emotional Impact.

If Someone Is Making A Judgment When They Don't Have Firsthand Experience, It's Intolerant. How Can You Make A Judgment On Something You Don't Know About?