Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.

You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.