I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.