“I told him you do it by what you write. We're in competition with ourselves. We've got a legacy and we can answer that legacy, ... If it doesn't fly musically, we're not going to do it.”
“Little Feat had done risky moves from the get go. You're going to lose people and get people. If they don't get it, it's probably not the first thing they didn't get. Most were middle-aged guys who were still wondering where Lowell was. We try to honor Lowell every time we go on stage. If they like it that's fine. If the audience doesn't show up we'll call it a day.”
“There was a musical vision that wasn't locked into one place. It's a musician's band. We weren't necessarily trying to be a household name so much than make a name within the musical community and shape those things that influenced us.”
“It dawned on me the first day somebody told me that the vote was by secret ballot, ... that people vote for their friends. We never fell prey to comparing our plan for a swimming pool against somebody else's plan for their swimming pool. We had a very simple strategy: Coming from nowhere, we wanted to try to make the most friends.”
