Quotes About Evolution

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

I'm a recovering politician.

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

You can't recreate the '60s.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.

It is always good to keep learning. Every day things change and we should recycle ourselves every day.

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

Money is part of the game, but let's take this music as musicians to the next level, don't be recycling beats over and over and over again.

I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of art. I really like that idea.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.