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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian – I'm just not interested in that argument.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs – I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.

The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.

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