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
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre