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If You Got A Trumpet, Get On Your Feet, Brother, And Blow It!

My Muse Is My Wife. It's Not Some Vague Thing That Flutters Around The Astrosphere Or Wherever It Is. Sometimes As A Songwriter You Need Something To Hang A Song On, To Give It Some Kind Of Presence And Form. For Me, Susie Is That.

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

I Write A Lot, And Very Often I Write A Couple Of Lines That Are Particularly Revealing In Some Kind Of Way. And Then As A Few More Lines Get Added And A Piece Gets Added, Eventually The Song Pretty Much Takes Over And You Can't Really Find A Way To Change Those Things.

Be Mindful Of The Prayers You Send Pray Hard But Pray With Care For The Tears You Are Crying Now Are Just Your Answered Prayers Letters Of Light We Scale Merrily, Move Mysteriously Around So That When You Think You're Climbing Up, Man, In Fact You're Climbing Down