Too Much Emphasis Is Put On American

Sometimes It Will Be For More Money Than I've Ever Been Offered Before. I Mean, Am I An Idiot Again For Not Doing That?

If I Give A Little Hint Or Clue As To Where My Voice Could Be Going, That Would [be] Read. Because People Can Listen Closely, You Know, You Can Sit With Headphones Or You Just Concentrate On Music, You Can Just Hear, Sometimes, The Desires Of The Voice Itself.

To Me, The Best Purpose Of An Interview Would Be To Illuminate Some Things About How Somebody Works For The Benefit Of Somebody Else Who Wants To Do Those Things. And That's Not Where Most Interviews Go At All, So To Me, They Seem Like Strange Exercises In Small Talk And Wasted Air.

My Booking Agent, Of Course, Here And Overseas, Their Tendency Is To Want To Build On A Certain Kind Of Measurable Success, And I Was Thinking Yesterday, What I'd Like To Do Is Maybe Start To Compile A List Of The Best 200 To 500 Capacity Rooms Around The World And Just Start Going To Them Again And Again And Again.

I Feel Like, For Me, Reading Thomas Merton Is Like “wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn’t A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself”. When You're A Ways Into It, You're Five Pages In, 20 Pages In, 30 Pages In, It Seems Like One Of The More Oxymoronic Undertakings You Could Attempt.