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It’s nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we’re engaging in piracy.
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That’s fine, but they don’t know me.
Writing songs is a profession; so it’s not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
I don’t think that word – the word pirate – has any real meaning. Or it’s something that’s had meaning imposed on it.
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It’s the song. It’s through me.
I figure it’s okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don’t think I had that when I was a kid.
I don’t like going to cities. I don’t mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don’t like cities. I don’t even like passing through them.
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn’t have telephones and doesn’t have a record player and doesn’t have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
It’s O.K. to accept good fortune.
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal – in this case, the ideal of the pirate – and then becomes something that’s more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
I don’t like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can’t see in buildings and cars.
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
I like rural areas.
Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good – whether it’s on vinyl, CD or cassette – if it’s not too expensive, I’ll take a chance.
I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.
