I think if everyone agrees that that’s the goal then it doesn’t matter who’s the band and it doesn’t matter who’s the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
BLACK FRANCISWhen you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn’t have a day job.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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I come from an art history background. I studied at a master’s degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.
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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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