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I Had A Lot Of Time To Myself, And I Would Listen To A Lot Of Music, Mostly Music That I Knew Fairly Well And Had A Relationship With. And I'd Think, Well, What Is It That I've Never Been Able To Do That This Person Or People Are Able To Do With This Song? Why Haven't I Been Able To Do It, And What Can They Do That I Wish I Could Do? And Then I'd Try To Do That. I'd Start Each Day Getting Into The Songs, And I'd Think About How I Might Get Closer To This Music That I Love, But Haven't Been Able To Make Before.

My Hope Has Always Been That Each Record Could Have Its Own Audience. Of Course, It's Awesome To Have A Cumulative Audience For More Than One Record, But I Like The Idea That There Could Be A Record That An Individual Might Like.

I Think That What Trips Up A Lot Of Great Musicians Is That They Become Involved With Too Many Things That Aren't Where Their Strengths Lie.

The Ideal Is To Put On Shows Where, If You Go Into The Same Space Again, You Don't Remember Ever Having Been There Before, Because Where You Were Was A Space That Only Existed That One Time, Created By The Music.

Sometimes We Need To Tell Ourselves That We're Not Going To Do Certain Things, Just In Order To Stay Sane.