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" It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks. "

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" I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot. "

" I love listening to gospel records. "

" Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels. "

" I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing. "

" If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future. "

" To me, the Internet is a big scam. "

" I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy. "

" Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make. "

" I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it. "

" I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people. "

" I had a lot of luck in meeting great musicians who were kind enough to show me things. "

" I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up. "

" The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it. "

" What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it. "

" Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage. "

" I'm a great lover of ballads. "

" I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do. "

" I think I'm more relaxed; I think I'm more philosophical. I don't get worried as much as I used to about things. "

" The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes. "

" I've done a fair amount of commercials. I did a bunch of Champion spark plug ads and Levi's and Molson Beer. You wouldn't know it. But some of it's damn good. "

" Music is all starting to sound alike in the modern era. Afro-pop sounds exactly like L.A. pop - there's no difference, no ambience, no real resonance. "

" The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose. "

" R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and out, and you didn't labor over the thing. I like music like that. "

" You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done. "

" People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere. "

" Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking. "

" I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be. "