"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)."

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"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)."

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"You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time."

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"There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years."

Life, Buddhism, First, Now

"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)."

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"I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records."

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"It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own."

Time, Question, Want, Years

"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario."

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"When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me."

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"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place."

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"I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist."

Art, Artist

"I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record."

Success, Being, Fun, Now

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Harry Belafonte, American Musician

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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