The World According to Jackson

"But here's the bottom line: Jackson, like some of his songs, goes down apocalyptic:
'I think the whole fucking thing is coming down. I think it's all over. There are hundreds of people in the woods of Vancouver and Oregon and New Mexico who make music and entertain themselves but happen to do something else for a living. As David Lindley has been known to say, "Plastic begets plastic."

'When do I think it's all gonna come down? Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, it doesn't matter. The way things are in this world, the fact that people live in square rooms and they go to bars and shit...you know, I used to think it was so lame to go to bars, but now I go to bars. On the other hand, the moment is everything. I can't deny that I'm from Southern California and I dig going to get a beer, I wanna get high, I wanna enjoy it. I don't want to pretend to be a spaceman. Fuck that shit. I'm just what I am and that's however good it is.'"

from a 1974 interview with Cameron Crowe