It more or less has the shape of a love song, but Crescent Moon reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. – Frank Black
Its sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? Thats the level where I want to go. – Frank Black
Theyre a different generation, those kids kids that are under the age of twelve. Theyre not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? Theyre like, its cool and everything, but whatever. Theyre just as impressed by YouTube. – Frank Black
Im not saying that people have to listen to rock music. Its a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so Im not going to judge. – Frank Black
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas