there is an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unseeable, then speakable, all those things comes into being, composer, writing music and searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. somebody asked me the dumbest question, my god it was hard to answer. they said why do you do what you do? i thought, boy that is, that is such an awful question to answer. i really had to think about that. i guess taking away all of the theatrics or costuming and all the kind of outer layers of what it is. i am a writer, what i do, i write. i started examining the subject matter that i write about. it boils down to a few songs. based around, lonliness, to a certain extent. and some kind of spiritual search. and, looking for a way into communicating with other people. that's about it. that's about all i have ever written about in 40 years. let's do a harmony line on those two that we just did. the forever sections, yeah. i was never particularly fond of my voice. i never thought of myself as a singer, you know. and i thought that i wrote songs and music. and i thought what i