Musician, Writer, Former Monkee, and Front Man for Shoe Suede Blues

1. What makes you laugh?

Silly jokes, humor.

2. What makes you cry?

Cheap, tear-jerking commercials.

3. What keeps you together?

My world view. I needed an ethos that covered the bases, and I’ve constructed that for myself. I am sure that there is a natural order of things, which, if accorded with, leads to happiness, and which, if defied, leads to distress and disorder in self and others.

4. What’s your biggest fear?

Agonizing cosmic disintegration.

5. What’s your biggest regret?

Many of the things I failed to follow through on. The fact that I have this history.

6. What’s the most useful thing you’ve learned?

See question #1.

7. What’s your idea of serenity?

Knowing that it’s okay that things aren’t okay.

8. At what times do you feel that there’s hope for the human race?

All the time. Are you kidding? What’s the alternative?

9. What qualities do you appreciate most in a friend?

Clarity and participation, both in our relationship and in their own lives.

10. What would you not want to live without?

You mean besides friends and a solid world view? Music.

11. What historical or fictional character would you be willing to have as a roommate?

Who knows how people admired in public are in private? I don’t know, Victor Borge? Pete Seeger?

12. What single special power (magical or physical) would you want most?

The body to do the triathlon. (I don’t believe in magic, except the magic of a young girl’s heart, how the music can free her whenever it starts…) T: Baby Boomers Raise Midlife Suicide Rate