A biography for Jim Jameshasn’t been written yet.
“The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.”
“We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.”
“Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.”
“I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.”
“I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.”
“Ever since I got back surgery, everything in my life has been about reduction. I've got the lightest backpack I can carry and the lightest MacBook.”
“I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.”
“Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl.”
“All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.”
“Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.”
“I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.”
“The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.”
“I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.”
“I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.”
“'The Muppet Show' was huge. I watched it all the time as a kid, and I really loved the way they used music on that. I also remember hearing the radio in the car as a kid, like Stevie Wonder and Simon and Garfunkel.”
“Anyone who knows music knows that Neil is about as real as it can get, and this along with seeing him perform 'Harvest Moon' on 'SNL' was my first experience knowing what real music really felt like.”
“I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.”