It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

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Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.