It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.'

I like to find
what's not found
at once, but lies within something of another nature,
in repose, distinct.

I had these ideas, which propelled some of the songwriting, that I was moving to a different place with. I thought it would be more change. I thought, “Maybe I’ll call him,” or whatever, which I haven’t done. But it was really important to me. These were the songs that were going to exist in this time. I wanted to be performing songs that meant something emotionally to me, and it would be this vulnerability that is liberating and also necessary.

I wanted to find a field in which I could be sure my freedom of thought would not be limited