“'Girls Go Wild' was born out of a Joshua Tree excursion with some clos...” — LP Quote

'Girls Go Wild' was born out of a Joshua Tree excursion with some close friends after coming home from a long bit of touring.

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.

I studied Paul Simon's 'Slip Slidin' Away' and 'Still Crazy After All These Years.' I wanted to explore adult themes, portraying the hurt that's in even a good relationship.

My mom died before she knew I was gay, and my dad thought it was a phase, then realized it wasn't.

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

Newspaper haters is a group of people that doesn't really exist, but, even if it did, it wouldn't be composed of people in Internet media. Those people, if they don't occasionally do odd jobs for papers and magazines themselves, have close friends who do.

There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

We are what we are because of the people in our lives. What would I be without my family and close friends?

My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.