We Were Raised With The

I Never Went To The Beatles' Concerts To Scream. I Never Screamed At Anybody's Show. I Was On My Feet With The Entire, All Of The Crowned Heads Of Motown, And We Were Shrieking Our Guts Out.

Every Single Year Since They Invented Sound Recording It Gets Better And Better. We've Always Improved It. With Mp3, Which Just Sounds Awful, It's The First Time In The History Of Recorded Music That It Sounds Worse. It's Really - And It's Everywhere, It's Ubiquitous.

I Feel Sorry For A Culture That Depends Too Much On Delegating Its Musical Expression To Professionals. It Is Fine To Have Heroes, But We Should Do Our Own Singing First, Even If It Is Never Heard Beyond The Shower Curtain.

I Don't Record (any Type Of Genre Of Music) That I Didn't Hear In My Family's Living Room By The Time I Was 10. It Just Is My Rule That I Don't Break Because ... I Can't Do It Authentically ... I Really Think That You're Just Hard-wiring (synapses) In Your Brain Up Until The Age Of Maybe 12 Or 10, And There Are Certain Things You Can't Learn In An Authentic Way After That.

Judy Henske, Who Was The Then Reigning Queen Of Folk Music, Said To Me At The Troubadour, 'honey, In This Town There Are Four Sexes. Men, Women, Homosexuals, And Girl Singers.'