Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
I stopped caring what people thought.
People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.