I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn’t a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn’t deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
BLACK FRANCISThey’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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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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My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.
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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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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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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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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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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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I’ve got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They’re there for me every time.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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That’s more important even then what their background is or what they’ve done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.
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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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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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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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