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Nowadays, it’s like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn’t have to think about it, the road and recording.

Bootsy Collins

It’s very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we’re so worried about gas prices that we don’t even see this stuff.
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Air Ocean Price Room Staff Taken
I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I’m here for.
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Bring Giving Important
I guess some of today’s programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.
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Today Together Touring
Usually when I’m out doing stuff, I’m just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don’t really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
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Boots Creative Space Stuff
Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I’m talking about musician attitude- then you’re lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.
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Attitude Men Talking
Skid marks all across my brain, cause you’re leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.
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Pain Rejection Running
I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don’t have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
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Boots Creating Max
Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.
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Falling Love Religion Religious
Recording wasn’t as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.
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Fool Important Stage
Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.
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Art Baby Media
We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we’ve created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we’re still making dumb decisions.
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Decision Phones Smart
Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two’s, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!
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Celebrate Daughter Equal Mourning Night Wake
During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don’t do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That’s how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff.
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Book Wall Writing
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I’m trying to get that finished.
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Albums Country People Trying
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
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Boots Waiting Water
When you’re used to playing with people, when you’re in a band, then you’re used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren’t used to playing with each other because they don’t have to.
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