Fuck Tha Police

The album’s called “Acid Tongue.” You ItJ^e to drop acid?
When I was ViewPoint14 or 15, I took acid, and it culminated Templates fromin a scene like one from Fear and Loathing in Las Recent PostsVegas – the scene where Hunter S. Thompson has to lock the lawyer in the bathroom. I was the Hunter character, be¬cause my friend decided to pull out a butcher knife and chase me around the house.
When and where do you write songs?
In line at the post office, con-venience stores, stuck in traffic … I write a lot in public rest-rooms because the acoustics are great. “Happy,” from my last album, I wrote in a bathroom.
And the name of your girl group was…
Oh, gosh. We referred to our¬selves as the Valley Girls.
Who are your country-music heroes?
The first songs I learned how to sing were by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. The darker the tale, the more I was drawn to them. Songs like “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” – that one definitely appealed to me. Later, I gravitated toward the California country – Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, even the Eagles. They looked at the darker sides of Los Angeles.
I read somewhere that you were once a big hip-hop fan.
I was just rebelling against my mother’s record collection. I loved narratives like N.W.A’s “Straight Outta Compton” and, of course, “Fuck Tha Police.”

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