Good music is an end in and of itself. When you're doing it, it's really the most fun part. |
His parents that raised him, who are two very sweet people, wrote us a letter, and also James met our keyboard player in Crosby, Stills, Nash, who's a dear friend of mine. And that was the way that actually got him on the phone to me. |
I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this. |
I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this. |
I started singing in coffeehouses when I was still in high school, in Santa Barbara. I took a job washing dishes and busing tables in the coffeehouse, so I could be there, and would beg permission to sing harmony with the guy who was singing onstage. |
I think this is just an outrage. I think people feel defeated. |
It was probably the strangest thing that's ever happened in the world, |
It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard. |
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. |
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. |
The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is? |
Their homes are gone; their businesses swamped. They wonder what the future holds, |
They're real good about it, |
VH1 and MTV turned suddenly from being a musical experience to a theatrical one. It became how you looked, which is what put Britney Spears - who's as deep as a birdbath - in front of Joni Mitchell. |
We got glimpses into their value systems and their reasons they do things that nobody else has gotten. It was pay dirt. It was seriously good stuff. |