You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process. – Jules Shear
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo. – Jules Shear
If you’re asking me to compare myself to other people, I don’t really know what other people are like. – Jules Shear
I’m not really getting too involved. My position is, Here’s the record. I’m at your disposal. – Jules Shear
I guess any time you believe in God you’ve got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don’t really know what that means. – Jules Shear
People don’t come to Asheville very often, and they don’t know I’m there. I enjoy it. I like it. – Jules Shear
I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man. – Jules Shear
I just sat down and thought, I’m going to write a song today, I’m going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song. – Jules Shear
Some people just come in, do it and they know it’s right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift. – Jules Shear
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn’t do it. – Jules Shear
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it’s a different kind of fun. – Jules Shear
I don’t know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store. – Jules Shear
The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world. – Jules Shear
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there. – Jules Shear
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I’m not into doing that stuff. – Jules Shear
