It Is More Rewarding To Be Complicit

In The United States The Government Has Become Less Important. So, It's Democracy, But As Each Year Passes It Seems That The Government Plays Less Of A Role In People's Lives, And So They're Living In Whatever Situation Their Employment Imposes Upon Them More Than They're Living In A Grand Political System.

I Valued The Experience Of Making The Recordings, And I Value The Performances Contained Therein, And I Value So Much Of What They Can Represent. I Also Think They're A Terrific Listening Experience. Putting Them Out This Way Was A Way Of Trying To Maintain And Nurture The Relationship With The Audience And Also Shine A Light On The Recent Past, Because We Are So Apt To Be Forgetful As Human Beings That There Was Such A Thing As A Recent Past. These Are Some Of The Reasons For Making This Record.

Every Recording Session And Tour Is A Very Valuable Time To Me In Terms Of Getting To Spend Time With The Musicians - Whether They're Friends And Family Or People I've Just Met - Because I Don't Have A Job Where I Get To Interact With People Everyday.

We Always Keep Things Very, Very Simple. We Can Make A Respectable Living Playing A Smaller Room That Somebody Else Couldn't, Because They're Spending A Lot Of Money. If We Can't Get A Show Up And Deliver With What We Almost Intrinsically Have In Our Brains And Our Pockets, Then I Don't Really Want To Do It.

If We Were Making A Record In Kentucky, There Might Be Some More Elements That Recall A Time, A Place, Or A Relationship. Recording For The Bbc You Enter Into This Strange And Wonderful, But Kind Of Sterile, Place With Which You Have No Personal History, And That's The Maida Vale Studios At Bbc In London.