I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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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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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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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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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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There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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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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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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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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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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Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
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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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