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The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.
I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
Things kind of happen organically with me.
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go... →
You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through... →
Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.