I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs… — David Friedman Copy Share Image