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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."
"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
"If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write."
"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."
"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."
"It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time."
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