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There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
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I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
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The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.
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I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.
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The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
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You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.
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When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame decided to open up the voting beyond their inner circle, to the actual fans, that's when I think everything changed.
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It's the music that brings us together.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.
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In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
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We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.
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My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
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The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
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Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.
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If I stopped touring tomorrow, it wouldn't change my life.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
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I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
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I'm bad at math.
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I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.
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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
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I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.
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You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
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