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.
BLACK FRANCISStuff 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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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 drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
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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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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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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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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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I don’t want to do children’s music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids – like when I’m putting them to bed.
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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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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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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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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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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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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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