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
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
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
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly. – Dominic Cooper