Staring At The World Through

I Think We Have To Have Capital Punishment, I Think There Has To Be Something To Contain Certain People. Those Deterrents I Think Are Necessary, Especially In Prison. You Can Threaten People For Just So Long, But They Can Flip You Off And Do What They Want To; But Not If They Have To Die. I Hate It, Though, The Thought Of The Death Penalty Is Terrible, But It's Completely Necessary.

I Just Follow My Nose, And Instead Of Letting Someone Run My Affairs And Probably Make Me Wealthy Within A Matter Of Years, I've Just Kept The Board Of Directors Down To Zero. I Make All The Decisions, And They Can't All Be Right, And My Lifestyle Is Very Expensive, So That Means I Have To Work A Lot. It's The Opposite Side Of The Coin From Sinking Back Into The Recliner And Becoming Somebody They Bury.

I Think It Was Tommy Who Told Me, 'when Your Song Is Called 'xyz' Or Whatever, Every Line Has Got To Make Sense Against Your Title.' He Showed Me Little Methods Of Proving To Yourself Whether The Line Belongs, And Ways Of Finding Out Whether You Were Able To Get More Out Of A Line If You Tried.

Sometimes If You Get 'em Too Drunk They Don't Pay No Attention To What You're Doin' Anyways, So You Might As Well Just Do Old Songs. But If You Get One That's Paying Attention, Sometimes We'll Do Some New Material.

We're Turning Into The Society That Is Accepting The Force-feed. I Don't Quite Understand Why We're Going For The Things We're Going For. There's No Process Of Elimination Anymore In Music. They Have These Grooming Schools, These Things, And They're Turning Out These Clones, And The Music Is Sounding So Refined That It's Not Even Interesting.