"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job."

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"I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job."

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"Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard."

First

"It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done."

First

"I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers."

Time

"That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better."

Fun

"It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best."

Earth

"We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played."

Day

"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."

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"The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment."

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"The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up."

Death

"When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out."

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