David Barker Quotes (5 Quotes)

I literally get three or four e-mails, phone calls, letters every day from people who want to write for the series,

The high-end apartments were lowering their rates closer and closer to ours, ... You can only lower your rent so far before you start to rent to people you really don't want to rent to. We've hit what I would consider the floor, and take our vacancies on top of that.

And while it might seem a given that any writer willing to take the time to pound out 25,000 words on a single disc would choose their all-time desert island pick, that's not always the case. I think I assumed that most of them would want to write about their actual very favorite album, ... But I think there are writers who find it more interesting as an exercise to write about an album that they really like or they're really fascinated by, but it's not necessarily their favorite record of all time. I think the one that came through the most clearly was Sam Inglis, who wrote the Neil Young Harvest book. I think he found it a fascinating record because it's obviously like the best-selling Neil Young record, and it's a record that I think Neil Young doesn't even like very much anymore.

People are looking for a more natural look now.

Um, well, it varies, doesn't it I think it's a mix. I think you've got to have research. I would like you to come up with some original material that no one has written about or known before. And a personal angle that kind of brings it to life for the reader. It's a mix of four or five different things, and I think it's interesting how some writers do 10 percent of this and 90 percent of the other. And some people do 20 percent of everything.