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It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.
Written by Todd Rundgren
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
Written by Todd Rundgren
Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.
Written by Todd Rundgren
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
Written by Todd Rundgren
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
Written by Todd Rundgren
Behind every tree there's a new monster.
Written by Todd Rundgren
You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.
Written by Todd Rundgren
The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill.
Written by Todd Rundgren
It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?
Written by Todd Rundgren
I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.
Written by Todd Rundgren
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
Written by Todd Rundgren
And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.
Written by Todd Rundgren
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
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One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.
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The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.
Written by Todd Rundgren
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.
Written by Todd Rundgren
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.
Written by Todd Rundgren
So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.
Written by Todd Rundgren
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles. People don't realize that previous to the Beatles, there really was no such thing as an album artist. People made singles. Then they would put a bunch of those singles together and call it an album. And that was it.
Written by Todd Rundgren
By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.
Written by Todd Rundgren
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'
Written by Todd Rundgren
I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.
Written by Todd Rundgren
I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called 'Arena,' and it was not a particularly bad record - it wasn't a bad record at all, but it was built around a certain concept, which is a guitar quartet, with a little bit of augmentation here and there.
Written by Todd Rundgren
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.
Written by Todd Rundgren

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