I Don't Stand Back And

We've Learned Over The Years That If We Wanted We Could Write Anything That Just Felt Good Or Sounded Good And It Didn't Necessarily Have To Have Any Particular Meaning To Us. As Odd As It Seemed To Us, Reviewers Would Take It Upon Themselves To Interject Their Own Meanings On Our Lyrics. Sometimes We Sit And Read Other People's Interpretations Of Our Lyrics And Think, 'hey, That's Pretty Good.' If We Liked It, We Would Keep Our Mouths Shut And Just Accept The Credit As If It Was What We Meant All Along.

I Didn't Come After Elvis And Dylan, I've Been Around Always. But If I See Or Meet A Great Artist, I Love 'em.

Carrying The Beatles' Or The Sixties' Dream Around All Your Life Is Like Carrying The Second World War And Glenn Miller Around. That's Not To Say You Can't Enjoy Glenn Miller Or The Beatles, But To Live In That Dream Is The Twilight Zone. It's Not Living Now. It's An Illusion.

It's Better To Fade Away Like An Old Soldier Than To Burn Out. I Don't Appreciate Worship Of Dead Sid Vicious Or Of Dead James Dean Or Of Dead John Wayne. It's The Same Thing. Making Sid Vicious A Hero, Jim Morrison - It's Garbage To Me. I Worship The People Who Survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream.