19 Quotes by Joel Plaskett

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

I have enough of a fan-base that I don’t feel it is going to evaporate. I don’t feel like I have a fleeting fan-base. I don’t feel like it is coming from some trend-driven thing where I’m no longer going to be hip. I’ve come and gone through all that.

I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

When I’m preforming a lot I’m aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

I’ve had a lot of support from every corner of my life and my audience, to pretty much do close to what I want. I don’t have unlimited time or money to execute my wildest dreams but I have enough get up and go to keep me going.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.