I've never in my life been more in tune with myself in terms of even living in my body of stress. I am in my physical body more than I've ever been before.
It reminds me of a lot of sad things that took place in a very monumental part of my life where, 9/11 had intersected with my first album coming out, and it was very profound.
The first three records of my life was just like proving. Proving. And you should. And then you start hearing people tell you, “thank you. Your music got me through a dark time.” That’s so much deeper.
It wasn’t made with any consideration for the outside world. It was a deeply personal and tightly-knit creative process that took nothing external into account.
And I'll tell you this: do you know how effusive you have to be in your love for everyone in your life for each and every person you loved to be told by another, "he loved you so much"?
This track was recorded live, in one take, by musicians with so much experience and capability that they hold the magic together with a mix of restraint and knowing when to lay something down that makes a statement.
Interview from October 2021 Issue of Guitar World magazine
So where a lot of people would think that the Eighties was all really goofy and neon-colored, well, to me, there was a lot of earnestness. The Eighties gave us Peter Gabriel. That's some of the coolest stuff in the world, you know?
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“As a musician and a songwriter, he’s as good as anybody at finding something that’s going on in his emotional inner life and expressing it eloquently.”
I’ll put it like this: every day you have to go without my new music is another day I can work harder to make sure it gets heard by as many people as might enjoy it.
I've seen Bill Clinton in a room. I believe maybe I might have shaken his hand quickly. I might be in a picture with him. I don't remember. I hope that's not mean that I don't remember.
I would put the Sunday circulars on the music stand on the piano, and I would sing what I was reading on the Sunday circulars. [Sings] Tide, two for a dollar twenty-nine!
This was a weird year. I was finishing up one record, and then I decided I never want to finish that record. And then I started a whole new record, and I'm finishing that one.
From YouTube episode of Long Distance by PRS Guitars with Paul Reed Smith
I love ideas. I love, “Oh here's a funny idea, here's a cool idea for this, here's a cool idea for that.” I just love ideas and that's all I am is ideas.
