Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

I am not a creature of habit.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security