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I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Music and the music business are two different things.