Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.
“The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.”
“There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.”