If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I’ll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist. – Todd Rundgren
It’s great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds. – Todd Rundgren
I don’t know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I’m going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last. – Todd Rundgren
I’ve got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else’. So there’s the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. – Todd Rundgren
I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea. – Todd Rundgren
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house… and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act. – Todd Rundgren
My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that – so I’ve tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the ’60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson’s songs. – Todd Rundgren
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I’m like a Casanova of music. I can’t seem to settle down with one musical form. – Todd Rundgren
We bought property after Iniki in ’92. I figured we’d never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn’t get a bargain, but we did find the spot we wanted to live on. It actually took a couple years to secure that spot. Then, after we moved, it took over 10 years to start construction on the house. It’s still a work in progress. – Todd Rundgren
You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it’s as unsettled as any other place. – Todd Rundgren
I am a laptop boy. People say: ‘Where’s your studio?’ I say: ‘It’s in my laptop, in my rucksack.’ – Todd Rundgren
People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don’t like to answer letters. I don’t write letters. I’ve never written my mother one. – Todd Rundgren
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I’m trying to sing with. – Todd Rundgren
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process. – Todd Rundgren
I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the ’80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the ’70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I’ve been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career. – Todd Rundgren
When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles. – Todd Rundgren
I don’t have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the ’70s, but I’ve had a lot of success producing other people. – Todd Rundgren
I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called ‘Arena,’ and it was not a particularly bad record – it wasn’t a bad record at all, but it was built around a certain concept, which is a guitar quartet, with a little bit of augmentation here and there. – Todd Rundgren
