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Rock a Little
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Talk to Me
- Timespace liner notes 1991 - This was a hard song to sing, but I had loved "Missing You" (co-written by Chas Sandford and John Waite), and I loved the words to "Talk To Me. "It took a long time to finish it though because I couldn't quite get the right feeling on it, until one night Jim Keltner came in to do some drum overdubs and then he stayed to be an audience, to push me a little to make me get a great vocal. So, I had someone to sing to and I got the vocal, I put some tambourine on it and it was finished forevermore. That was one of my unforgettable moments I'll not soon forget it."
I Can't Wait
- Timespace liner notes 1991 - "I think this was about the most exciting song I had ever heard. My friend Rick whom I had known since I was eighteen and he was thirteen, brought over this track with this incredible percussion thing and gave it to me asking me if I would listen to it and consider writing a song for it. I listened to the song once and pretended not to be that knocked out but the second Rick left I ran to my little recording studio and wrote "I Can't Wait." It took all night and I think it is all about how electric I felt about the music. And that night that SATURDAY night Rick and I went into a BIG studio and recorded it. I sang it only once and have never sung it since in the studio. Some vocals are magic and simply not able to beat. So, I let go of it as new to me as it was but you know now when I hear it on the radio this incredible feeling comes over me ... like something really incredible is about to happen.
To understand this song you sort of have to let yourself go a little crazy, love is blind ... it never works out ... but you just have to have it ... I can't wait..."
Rock a Little (Go Ahead Lilly)
- Arizona Republic 1983 - I wrote this song about three years ago. I lived on the beach and this song is about the fact that the beach was always shaking and I always thought it was an earthquake. I had to learn to know not to pack my bags and run out the back. It's real 'rock n roll' and was written before Wild Heart. It was really written right along with Bella Donna but I knew the second I wrote 'Rock n Roll' that it would be the next record after Wild Heart."
- MTV Interview 1985 - "We kinda rock a little all our life, we rock ... I did ... I rocked in my cradle for sure, and ah then in mid-life you sort of rock on your feet and then you move onwards to a rocking chair at some point, so that's kind of what Rock a Little means. It means to rock and roll all your life."
- Off the Record 1986 - "I'm Lily, I've been Lily for a long time actually ... because in my writing, in my book, and everything, I ... when I write about me and my friend Robin, who everybody knows that I lost to leukemia, I wrote about her and I as Lily and Julia, Julia and Lillian Hellman, so that movie (Julia) you know with Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, so Robin looked incredibly like Vanessa Redgrave and I ... I was very Jane Fonda you know. And, our relationship was very much like this ... like you know come on across the river but don't forget to tell me that you're really afraid so in case you fall in I'll be expecting it. Don't lie to me and say ... alright, I'll do it because you think I'm brave."
- More Off the Record from 1986 - "I wrote it about when I moved into that place, you know I'm afraid of the earthquake. My place would shake you know when the waves would hit and it was like half a block to the beach and it was straight sand from the end of my place to the water. But the water would hit so hard that it would shake my apartment, and my bed was like a little platform built to the floor with a matress on it, right. So, when my house shook ... my ribs shook ... it would scare me, and I would think, 'this is it, this is the big EQ.' I finally had to realize the difference between what was the water and what was possibly the earthquake. So Rock a Little says 'sometimes it rages ... rock a little ... just like the sea.' Rock a Little means perseverance. Rock a Little means rock a little all the time. If you rock out you may not rock any more."
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