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" I've been wanting an ice cream truck forever. "

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" 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 ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland. "

" I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar. "

" All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing. "

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

" You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living. "

" It all started back in '69 when I worked with Jack Nitzche on 'Performance.' That was my first experience of doing soundtracks, and I've enjoyed doing them ever since. "

" Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done. "

" When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist - a lefty, commie guy, pinko man. "

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

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

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

" I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like. "

" American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact. "

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

" Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway. "

" Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it. "

" If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions. "

" Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot. "

" How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it. "

" I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head. "

" With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing. "

" Music is a treasure hunt. You dig and dig, and sometimes you find something. "

" You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started. "

Getting Started

" It's crazy to make records nobody buys. It's just a waste of time. "

" I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money - it was horrible. "

" 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. "

" On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see? "

" I wanted to be a car pinstriper, but there was nobody to teach me how to do it. So I said, 'Music's good too. I'll do that maybe, since I can't work out how to do this pinstriping.' "

" I don't like being watched, and I don't like being an entertainer. "