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"Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say."
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"My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant."
"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."
"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record."
"You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth."
"The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion."
"That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them."
"I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence."
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