You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.
It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.
I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.
I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
The pop world has really opened its doors.
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.
NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.
I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.
