My cholera's acting up again.
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. . . . I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but I have plenty of respect for that style of playing.
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid. . . it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say. ' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.
We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.
We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.