Rock & Roll Is Not

You Have To Be Willing To Deal With The Ups And Downs Of The Music, The Ups And Downs Of The Audience.

I Think The Days Of Working With Producers In The Conventional Sense Are Over For Me.

Music Is Supposed To Be Interwoven Into The Fabric Of Society; It Is Not Supposed To Be A Plaything That Is There To Serve The Population's Titillation Of The Moment.

There's Something Going On Right Now In America, Where The American Spirit Or Character Is Reasserting Itself Around Liberty. I Think It's An Important Time, And I'm Trying To Document That As An Artist. If I Just Filter What I Read Through The Media, If I Just Go Through What I Read Through The Media, I'm Not Really In Touch With The World I Grew Up In. I Know There's A Gap There, I Talk To My Relatives, I Talk To People I Meet Traveling Around, And Their Mind Is On Something Completely Different.

These Days You're Not Just Competing With The Tedium, You're Competing With The Cellphone.