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" I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should. "

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" It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume. "

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" I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed. "

" I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work. "

" But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. "

" For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song. "

" I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes. "

" If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that. "

" I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements. "

" For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at. "

" I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense. "

" I love to write. It's my first love. "

" I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed. "

" It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question. "

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" I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures. "

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" First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain. "

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