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"I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism."
"James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it. I never had the concept that I'm going to go somewhere and I'm going to have this career. I just really never thought about all that."
"Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time."
"It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet."
"I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business."
"I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing."
"I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff"
"Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems."
"The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises."
"The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it."
"I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them."
"I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was."
"I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box."
"I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff."
"Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like."
"If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right."
"If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that."
"I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set."
"I've done so much stuff and it's all so different."
"My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists."
