It's The Only Way That Your Life

Sometimes You're A Psychiatrist And Sometimes You're A Group Therapist. The Dynamics In Between People And The Misgivings Sometimes That Artists Have When They Get Into The Studio Because They're Under A Different Level Of Scrutiny. A Lot Of Them Can Be Insecure About It. My Job Is Not Simply To Make Musical Determinations But Sometimes To Just Keep People From Flipping Out During The Process.

I Believe The Word "infidel" Is Not Particular To Any Religion. I Believe We Are All Created In The Image Of God, In Fact, We Are All God, Or At One With God, At Our Deepest Core Essence. I Think "infidel" Refers To One Who Does Not Believe That God Is None Other Than The Self. The "infidel" Is The Individual Personality Who Identifies With The Body And Thoughts And Not The Divine Indweller. Therefore We Are All "infidels" Save The Sacred Few Who Have Transcended The Notion Of The Limited Self. The Ancient Mystics Of All Tradtitions Have Said This.

My Senses Tell Me Hubba.

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.

I've Had Production Offers With Artists I Really Admire, And Oftentimes That Doesn't Work Out. Sometimes It Does, But... For Instance I Was Asked If I Wanted To Do A Talking Heads Album Back In The Late '70s, Early '80s, And I Was Already Working On A Different Project And Didn't Have Time, So I Never Got The Opportunity To Work With Them.