That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
BLACK FRANCISIt’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 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.
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Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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Who do sing SONGS. It’s like I never sang before; like I was – I don’t know – reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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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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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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When 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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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”
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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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When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
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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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