I just don't lose weight easily.
I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again.
If it's something that I just can't get anywhere with, even if I think this could be a hit, I just drop it and it doesn't get developed.
There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".
I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I'm so happy with, she's been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I've been always very influenced by Japan. Since I guess the 70's or so. I've come to appreciate so much of their culture.
I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.
In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.
Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
I believe children are the future. . . which is why they must be stopped now!
How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!