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I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

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It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

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It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

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More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

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My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

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So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

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There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

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They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 6th, 1964

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