Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional and the emotion in the music is built in whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
I prefer to imagine that my wife a few friends and occasionally my mom are...
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received....
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
