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When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.
I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
It's not particularly fun to have to factor in step stools to almost all areas of your home.
We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.
