Zitat des Tages von Jules Shear:
I love to get people to sing and play together.
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.
Things kind of happen organically with me.
You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.
I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
I made this record without a record label.
I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?
People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.