I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. — 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
