The Two Biggest Self-deceptions Of All Are

Singing Is A Trick To Get People To Listen To Music For Longer Than They Would Ordinarily.

A Lot Of That Worked Itself Out In The Recording.

There's Still A Feeling That Uncensored Emotions Make A Good Song. They Don't. Pure Emotion Is Just Somebody Screaming At You, Or Crying. It Doesn't Communicate Anything.

It Seemed [there Are] Musical Nodes On The Planet Where Cultures Meet And Mix, Sometimes As A Result Of Unfortunate Circumstances, Like Slavery Or Something Else, In Places Like New Orleans And Havana And Brazil. And Those Are Places Where The European Culture And Indigenous Culture And African Culture All Met And Lived Together, And Some New Kind Of Culture And Especially Music Came Out Of That.

Metal Buildings Are The Dream That Modern Architects Had At The Beginning Of This Century. It Has Finally Come True, But They Themselves Don't Realize It. That's Because It Doesn't Take An Architect To Build A Metal Building. You Just Order Them Out Of A Catalog - Comes With A Bunch Of Guys Who Put It Together In A Couple Of Days, Maybe A Week. And There You Go - You're All Set To Go Into Business - Just Slap A Sign Out Front.