If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong.
Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.