kind of art. i think the salient thing about making art in the 70s was that the 60s had already happened. we had a beautiful fertile field of new ideas and new directions and a lot of really crazy and great and profound influences to work off of. this album has the same things internally for me that i was doing in the 70s. i had great stuff to build on. and in this case, i had some rich, happy or not, developments in my personal life. and i began to reach back further into the music i d heard since i was a little kid. my father was a big band singer. his mother was an opera singer. so there s been music in my house all along. but during the last two or three years of writing this record, i felt all those things kind of rushing together again. very much like they did in the 70s. i m so pleased with this album,