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By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.