July 16: Cancer

"A lot of times I write lyrics in a very stream of conciousness kind of way and in no way is the Hitler referal in [Top] sympathy at all. I think, if you know our history, you would probably know that. The way the lyrics go, the song is really about leaders in general and people's affection for them and I think that you can insert any leader, any ideological megalomaniac in place of Hitler and, for that matter, any leader -- any religious leader or political leader -- because the song is really about personal responsibility and it's not about Hitler or the Nazis in particular. That was just what I decided to write about that day. The phrase 'Hitler in a robe of truth' is real because that's what the German people gave to him -- a robe of truth ... He was their deliverer and he was going to deliver them from all their pain and it ended up being a catastrophe, the holocast and everything. The song's about liberating yourself from leaders and that kind of influence."

"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."