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"I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!"
Work
"The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band."
Musicians
"I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy."
Time
"My nutritionist always said to eat whatever you want."
Want
"You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited."
Life
"I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals."
Music
"Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in."
People
"When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?"
Want
"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
Poor
"The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road."
Humor
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"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
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Personal Development
"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
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"We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour."
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"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."
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"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound."
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