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Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumineers. It seems like people and music fans are enjoying the more artistic side of music, and that popular music is taking a turn and accepting that, so I appreciate that.

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.