There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.
I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.
I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it
I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.
Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.
I feel the same way about every album. I think it's better than the one before. I have a strong feeling that you can't put out a record until you hate the last one you did because you have to make it better.
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.
Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the last one. " There are the people that are like, "I want it to sound like the last one. " You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.