Look Upon Yourself Only With

Many Of Us Would Probably Not Be In The Music Business - Or Never Would Have Been In The Music Business - Had The Beatles Not Demonstrated That This Kind Of Music, Or This Kind Of Performance, Was Actually Viable As A Career Alternative.

Music Gets Recorded Usually In One Format, And When You Have To Take It Out And Perform It There Are Other Applications And Things Like That That Are Better For The Live Performance.

Sometimes You're A Psychiatrist And Sometimes You're A Group Therapist. The Dynamics In Between People And The Misgivings Sometimes That Artists Have When They Get Into The Studio Because They're Under A Different Level Of Scrutiny. A Lot Of Them Can Be Insecure About It. My Job Is Not Simply To Make Musical Determinations But Sometimes To Just Keep People From Flipping Out During The Process.

You Would Have Thought That As You Got Older The Voice Would Tend To Deteriorate In Some Ways, But I Always Look At Somebody Like Tony Bennett, Who Is My Senior, And Still Can Hit Those High Notes And Still Can Belt It Out As Good As He Ever Did. So It Must Be Something About The Voice That's Unlike The Rest Of The Muscles In Your Body.

There Must Be A God Because He Made Me.