RS: What is your first musical memory?
The Purple Organ: My mommy's mammeries,and the songs she sang as I suckled.
RS: What’s the first song that you wrote?
The Purple Organ: "This is the very first song of the very beginning of time and all creation".
RS: How did your fascination with Leonard Cohen begin?
The Purple Organ: It began as Leonard personally carmelized the snail in the forest arm pitted sports car....and never ended.
RS: Is there a line by Cohen that jumps out at you?
The Purple Organ: Nothing, absolutely nothing.
RS: What was the last song that you wrote before going into rehab?
The Purple Organ: "I can't wait till rehab is over and I get to do more drugs". and "Please take me to rehab so I can be exposed the hard, addictive, and deadly drugs that I had avoided prior to going into rehab".
RS: On the song “Want” you sing “I just want to be my dad/ with a slight sprinkling
of my mother.” What were your parents’ reactions to that?
The Purple Organ: They sprinkled me as I had never been sprinkled before.
RS: If you wanted to turn a kid on to good music, what three albums would you give them?
The Purple Organ: Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland", The Boredoms "Super rr", and Willie Nelson "Willie and Family Live".
RS: Who is your favorite artist to sing along to?
The Purple Organ: Inglebert Humperdink.
RS: What musicians are in denial about their homosexuality?
The Purple Organ: Every stinking one of 'em.
RS: Really?
The Purple Organ: You didn't know?
RS: What musical family has the greatest legacy?
The Purple Organ: P. Diddy and Family.
