Art Is The Child Of

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

Sometimes, I Think The Way The Music Business Has Been Destructive And The Way The Fans Are Been Put Through It And Try To Navigate Through It, So Much Is So Foreign To What Musicians Would Actually Want To Do Or What Would Be Natural To Them.

As Music Becomes More Computer-based, It's Lost Some Emotional Impact.

No One Should Drive A Hard Bargain With An Artist.

I've Personally Reached The Point Where The Sound Of Mp3s Are So Uncompelling, Because So Much Is Lost In Translation.