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I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

On the 'Escondido' album, I think it took us a month to make that album.

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

If a guy came up and said 'we got a polka band and we're going to play polkas next Saturday night' I'd play polkas.

I try and manufacture recordings to sound spontaneous. Then, some things are spontaneous.

As the years went by and technology came in, I used a lot of technology.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

I'm a background person.

I'm not a household name.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I'd like to have the fortune, but I don't care too much about the fame.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

I'm so old, I can remember before rock 'n' roll come along.

What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

I've never sold a lot of records.

I was a late bloomer in the music business.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

I've always enjoyed being a Gypsy.

I basically make my living writing songs, so I've been able to go around in my trailer. If I got tired of a place, I could move on and roam around. It's a nice environment for writing songs, as opposed to sitting at a recording studio console all day.

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

Music is a kind of magical thing, and you can't make magic every time, but you try. Every once in a while it has that magic, and the audience knows that. I probably miss it more than I hit it, but I think that's what all musicians try for.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

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