Too Much Emphasis Is Put On American

I Still Make Music. I Still Write Music And I Record Music, I Just Don't Trust Music Promotion [and] Distribution Right Now Enough To Record A New Set Of Diligently Worked-upon Compositions. I Do Trust The Audience And The Audiences Very Much.

We Always Keep Things Very, Very Simple. We Can Make A Respectable Living Playing A Smaller Room That Somebody Else Couldn't, Because They're Spending A Lot Of Money. If We Can't Get A Show Up And Deliver With What We Almost Intrinsically Have In Our Brains And Our Pockets, Then I Don't Really Want To Do It.

Sometimes The Ensemble 'eighth Blackbird' Will Have Performances And Invite Me To Be A Featured Soloist. I Think That Is What They Call It In That World-"featured Soloist."

With Women, You Always Have To Make An Educated Decision To Figure Out What They're Thinking. It's Not One That's Necessarily Sympathetic, Always. Of Course, We're All Human Beings, But The Gender Thing Is Big Thing. And A Great Thing.

I Felt So Liberated When I First Saw Charles Mee’s 'the Glory Of The World' At Bam Play, Because For Me This Is The Gateway To Contemplation, Or This Is The Gateway To Love, Or This Is The Gateway To Faith, Not Sitting And Reading A Book By An Isolated Monk, God Bless Him. This Is.