There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.
I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.