Music Reflects The Time That It's Being

All These Fifty-year-old Guys Wearing Baseball Caps And Shorts And Acting Like Children. It Winds Me Up. Men Don't Have To Take Responsibility Anymore. Most Of The Guys I Know Would Punch Me On The Nose For Saying This, But Maybe We Do Have To Bring Back Conscription.

I've Done Lots Of Songs For Film Soundtracks And Things Like That-stuff I'm Not Ashamed Of, But That Doesn't Represent My Legacy With The Pretenders...i Think Domesticity Certainly Doesn't Make It Easy To Write, You Know, Because You've Got A Lot Of Distractions And I Think A Writer Is Always Looking For Distractions.

The Thing About Janis Is That She Just Looked So Unique, An Ugly Duckling Dressed As A Princess, Fearlessly So. Seeing Her Live Was Like Watching A Boxing Match. Her Performance Was So In Your Face And Electrifying That It Really Put You Right There In The Moment. There You Were Living Your Nice Little Life In The Suburbs And Suddenly There Was This Train Wreck, And It Was Janis.

The Only Person Stopping You From Doing Something Is Yourself, And Looking For Excuses All The Time Just Gets In The Way Of Obtaining Your Own Goals. It's Like The Writer Who Keeps Getting Up And Straightening The Pictures In The Room.

The People Who Are Making A Lot Of Money And Eating At Mcdonald's And Watching Mtv And Have Square Eyeballs, They're Over There. And Then Maybe There's Like Five Other People Left In America And I'm Just Waiting For Them To Come Up With Something Interesting.