There’s a capacity for appetite,” Samuel said, “that a whole heaven and earth of cake can’t satisfy.

Like I&#39;m in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I&#39;ve got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

Yeah I do and I don&#39;t mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you&#39;re losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it&#39;ll wake them up.

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it&#39;s fresh.

It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn&#39;t play.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

There are nights when you can feel stale because you&#39;ve fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it&#39;s easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

Leo Kottke

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