I've Noticed That When I Am Selling

In The Future, Women Will Have Breasts All Over. In The Future, It Will Be A Relief To Find A Place Without Culture. In The Future, Plates Of Food Will Have Names And Titles. In The Future, We Will All Drive Standing Up. In The Future, Love Will Be Taught On Television And By Listening To Pop Songs.

As Music Becomes Less Of A Thing--a Cylinder, A Cassette, A Disc--and More Ephemeral, Perhaps We Will Begin To Assign An Increasing Value To Live Performances Again.

Human Beings Have The Incredible Capacity For Denial. I Think They Do. And Although It's Really Hard To Believe, I Have My Doubts. But My Feeling Is That First They Have To Convince Themselves. First They Have To Justify This Stuff To Themselves And If They Can Do That, Even For Just The Moment That It's Coming Out Their Mouth, Then They Can Kind Of Mouth It With Kind Of Believable Sincerity, Even If Some Of Us.

I Sense The World Might Be More Dreamlike, Metaphorical, And Poetic Than We Currently Believe--but Just As Irrational As Sympathetic Magic When Looked At In A Typically Scientific Way. I Wouldn't Be Surprised If Poetry--poetry In The Broadest Sense, In The Sense Of A World Filled With Metaphor, Rhyme, And Recurring Patterns, Shapes, And Designs--is How The World Works. The World Isn't Logical, It's A Song.

A Lot Of That Worked Itself Out In The Recording.