It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
I think it was 37 years that I did music.
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.
I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.