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Music Gets Recorded Usually In One Format, And When You Have To Take It Out And Perform It There Are Other Applications And Things Like That That Are Better For The Live Performance.

You Would Have Thought That As You Got Older The Voice Would Tend To Deteriorate In Some Ways, But I Always Look At Somebody Like Tony Bennett, Who Is My Senior, And Still Can Hit Those High Notes And Still Can Belt It Out As Good As He Ever Did. So It Must Be Something About The Voice That's Unlike The Rest Of The Muscles In Your Body.

If You Went Crazy, Would You Know It?

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.

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.