We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [Inside Out (VH1)]
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
Piano is like drudgery.
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
I don't like piano solos.
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
