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It's Never The Same Relationship. I See My Job As Filling In The Blanks. Whatever It Is That The Artist Lacks In The Process Of Making A Record, I'm Supposed To Fill That In. And Sometimes It's A Lot Of Stuff And I Have To Hector Them About Working On The Material And That Sort Of Thing. Sometimes You Have An Artist That's Really Fairly Self-sufficient; They Just Need Another Ear To Offer Some Objective Criticism, But Otherwise Pretty Much Know What They're Doing. It Varies A Lot.

There Are Still People Who Believe In That And Wake Up Every Day Believing It's Possible, And Invest Their Whole Selves In That.

You Would Have Thought That As You Got Older The Voice Would Tend To Deteriorate In Some Ways, But I Always Look At Somebody Like Tony Bennett, Who Is My Senior, And Still Can Hit Those High Notes And Still Can Belt It Out As Good As He Ever Did. So It Must Be Something About The Voice That's Unlike The Rest Of The Muscles In Your Body.

Behind Every Tree There's A New Monster.

I Must Of Woke Up This Morning With A Bug Up My Ass, I Think I'll Just Haul Off And Belt The Next Jerk That I Pass.