This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.