Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.
If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit
Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar
I started playing music at a pretty young age
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
I make the kind of music I like
I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.
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