There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but also played live a couple of times - that could've gone on 'At Dawn', but we always knew we wanted to make a record that was more quote-unquote 'rock n' roll.'
The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
Music is what I do pretty much all the time. I'm always in the studio. I'm always rehearsing for shows. Always doing shows.
It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.
I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.' About a third of the way through, I suddenly, finally caught up to the fact that Shirer had been there in Berlin, from 1934 on, and was finally kicked out when the U.S. entered the war.
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.
I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.
What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things for me as a musician and a writer and a producer is to feel like there's always a sense of evolution and reinvention with each record.
Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.
There's always nerves when you're releasing something.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
