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" Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like. "

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" All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much. "

Jim James

Think

Kind

Always

" Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by. "

" I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply. "

Jim James

World

Song

" I tried to score a few films with this composer Brian Reitzell here in L.A. We made a bunch of music we really loved, but we got fired from the film for being too weird. "

" I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments. "

" I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording. "

" Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know. "

" Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more things start to disappear and get gobbled up by the Internet, but live music won't be one of them. "

" I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage. "

Jim James

Years

Heavy

" Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars. "

" If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how your heart wants it to be made. But it's a difficult world, especially for musicians. "

" I was always kind of against streaming, but I've been traveling so much, and I usually carry a huge hard drive of digital music with me, but I haven't had time to deal with it, so I've been doing streaming. And I had this incredible breakthrough of weightlessness where I've really been loving streaming music. "

Jim James

Time

Drive

" There's so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too. "

" I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books. "

" I feel like modern country is deliberately dumbing down the human race. They're deliberately making people take glory in being uneducated and racist, and it's just sad. I think it's absolute mind control. "

" The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power. "

Jim James

Power

Together

" I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.' "

" Big religion was started with one goal in mind: to make money. And I'm not knocking anyone's faith, because I think there are a lot of good values to be found in any faith. But when any faith starts to get in the way of love, that's where you can tell that greed and fear have stepped in and that those things come from man. "

" Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl. "

Jim James

Tribute

Out

" I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important. "

Jim James

Important

Magic

" Pilates is amazing. It makes you conscious of how you have been doing something incorrectly for so long, even something as simple as just standing there. "

" I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something. "

" Ever since I got back surgery, everything in my life has been about reduction. I've got the lightest backpack I can carry and the lightest MacBook. "

" I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff. "