Oh, A Passing, Skeptical Kind

Musicians Are At The Bottom Of The Creative Pyramid And Authors Are At The Top, And Many People Think It's Unacceptable For Someone To Attempt To Jump From The Bottom To The Top Of The Pyramid.

What I Think About When I Frequent The Museum Of Natural History, The Metropolitan [museum Of Art], And I Look At These Artifacts That Are Taken Out Of Context And How We're Forced To View Them As Objects, As Relics, As Sculpture- Static. But What's Interesting Is What It Allows Me To Do In My Head In Terms Of Imagining What The Possibilities Are Or Imagining The Role In Which They Played Within A Particular Culture Which I'm Fascinated By.

One Thing That I'm Really Interested In Is The Kind Of Esoteric Detail That Surrounds These Great Figures. And Wikipedia Is Full Of That Kind Of Stuff, Whether It's True Or Untrue. It Staggers Me: Why, In The Short Space Assigned To A Person Or An Event, That Kind Of Random Information Is There. To Be Honest, That's Wonderful Fuel For Songwriting.

I'm A Kind Of Hard-wired Pessimist. I Can't Help But See The World In A Certain Kind Of Way.

Well, As Anyone Who Actually Writes Knows, If You Sit Down And Are Prepared, Then The Ideas Come. There's A Lot Of Different Ways People Explain That, But, You Know, I Find That If I Sit Down And I Prepare Myself, Generally Things Get Done.