Look Upon Yourself Only With Compassion.

Make Music A Service That's Easy To Consume, And There'll Be Plenty Of Money For Everyone.

It's Never The Same Relationship. I See My Job As Filling In The Blanks. Whatever It Is That The Artist Lacks In The Process Of Making A Record, I'm Supposed To Fill That In. And Sometimes It's A Lot Of Stuff And I Have To Hector Them About Working On The Material And That Sort Of Thing. Sometimes You Have An Artist That's Really Fairly Self-sufficient; They Just Need Another Ear To Offer Some Objective Criticism, But Otherwise Pretty Much Know What They're Doing. It Varies A Lot.

It May Not Necessarily Reflect My Current Frame Of Mind. Sometimes I Have To Put Myself At The Point In Time Of The Voice That I'm Trying To Sing With.

Don't Sit And Wait - For The World On A Plate - (it's Not A Stroke Of Luck Or Chance) - Just Draw A Bead On That Sucker, And Drive!

I've Had Production Offers With Artists I Really Admire, And Oftentimes That Doesn't Work Out. Sometimes It Does, But... For Instance I Was Asked If I Wanted To Do A Talking Heads Album Back In The Late '70s, Early '80s, And I Was Already Working On A Different Project And Didn't Have Time, So I Never Got The Opportunity To Work With Them.