I have to really feel a song before I’ll deal with it; and just about every song I do is based either on an experience I’ve had or an experience someone I know had gone through.
“You and I know (don’t we?), there is a thing and the idea of it. An other, an envy that looks human — more than, I give it such luster even it takes the air out of me — a self and an idea of it and another.”