I felt like changing little bits of the lyric here and there, because it wasn't entirely true for me. Then I wound up writing a different verse. And then I found myself with a new lyric to somebody else's song. Then I would find myself writing songs. Bear in mind that this process culminated in the middle of the '80s in the wake of MTV, punk, techno, dance club, and pointy-boob pop.
Music is too important.
We need to take music back into our own hands. That's why it was acoustic, because it was cheap, because it was light, because you could carry it on to the sidewalk and be a street musician, and you could move people with language and stir people's hearts. Long before the critical accolades and popular approval met his work, Wilcox surprised himself with the power of the process. At first, only a good song could make me feel that good, but I wanted to find work that would make me feel that good and a lover that would make me feel that good and a place to live that would make me feel that good. Little by little I just kept following that one compass, that one direction of trying to sing my life and live my music, kind of stir them all together.