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» I'll sleep when I'm dead.

» You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

» Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

» Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

» Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

» The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

» That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

» So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

» Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

» Piano is like drudgery.

» My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

» My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

» My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

» Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

» It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

» I'm not a big jazz fan.

» I wish I sang better.

» I remember certain lines and whose they are.

» I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

» I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

» I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

» I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

» I have no guitar technique.

» I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

» I don't like piano solos.

» I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

» Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

» Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

» Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

» Dylan can do no wrong.

» Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

» But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

» But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

» And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

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