Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.