I Think You Have To

When My Nephew Was 3 And 4, He Would Say The Most Genius Things. He Said, You're Hammer Macho With Fbi Dogs. I Thought It Was Just One Of Those Great Lines.

It's So Easy To Criticize Your Own Time, And I See That As A Problem, Even For Myself, As A Listener.

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.

I'm Always Working On My Own Music, Too. I've Been Working On A Record For A Few Years.

Technology Was Something I Avoided When I Started Out - I Didn't Even Have Electric Guitars. Only Played Acoustic. But After A While, I Realized That It's Important To Embrace Things That Are Available In Your Time, And Try To Do Something Different With Them.