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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

I would never deny the importance of the media, but I wouldn't go out of the way to splash my pictures all over town. I'd rather let my work do the talking.

It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.