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Continued from page 52 and then I just like built cues around it. Anything that makes noise. Zoe would always get me these little toys for Father’s Day and stuff. Remember that little thing that went varoom? Well, that was on… I don’t remember which show or who was on the show, but people laughed when they heard it. You and Zoe should do a reality show. I have the pleasure of knowing his daughter Zoe, and she’s awesome and wonderful—nothing like her dad, but somehow strangely congruent. You know what I mean? Yeah, but her hairline isn’t receding. [laughter] How much do you sleep on average per night? Not enough. I easily work until somewhere between 2 and 5:30 in the morning. Then tell everybody what time you get up to take Zoe to school. Well, except for late-start days, we’re usually up about seven-ish, I’d say. So sleeping I

you take the publishing, right?” And he’s like, “No.” And I ran out of angles where he could have been doing it. So the fact that you guys are here and doing this, I think this is really smart of you and cool. And I kinda wish that I had done it a long time ago, because I wouldn’t have been broke for as long, I don’t think. So it’s really good, and it’s… Can I just like preach for a minute? You can do anything you want. Believe in yourselves and do what you think is great, and don’t try and be the next John Williams, or whoever. Learn from these people and study them, and learn the rules and study them, and then shatter them, and make what you think is fun music or great music or sad or happy music or whatever. I think that

that is what really stands out, and that’s what made it work for me—doing that and putting together the things that you’re supposed to. You know, death metal or orchestral music wasn’t typically a thing that was supposed to go well together. Aboriginal music with hiphop, or country and hip-hop—which I’ve done a lot of—wasn’t supposed to work, and it just did. So make it work. Find that place inside you that makes you feel comfortable and want to play it, like I mentioned, in your car or your truck as you’re driving. You hear it and you’re not feeling the urge to vomit, that you really love it. I think that’s a good healthy approach. [applause] Make sure to read Part 3 in next month’s TAXI Insider!

“Good songwriters and co-writers are brave.” —Adam Zelkind
haven’t done as well on as I should have. [laughter] The reason I ask him that is to show the incredible commitment that… Look, anybody in this room could potentially be Adam Zelkind and live the life. I mean, Adam would be the first guy to tell you this. Don’t know if you want to do that, by the way… But it didn’t just happen because he’s this cool, awesome, warm-and-fuzzy guy. It happened because he’s an incredibly hard-working guy. I do work hard. There’s no other way that I know of other than doing it—whatever you’re doing, you know? Look at what you’ve created—this thing [TAXI and the Road Rally]. By the way, you guys, the reason that I didn’t initially start paying attention to TAXI was I always saw the TAXI ads in the magazine, and I thought, “Ah, another one of those things that rips the musicians off.” So I didn’t even read it or ask about it or anything. And then I just started asking about it and I heard all this good stuff and I thought, OK, I gotta find this TAXI guy and ask him some questions. I’m gonna find out where he’s screwing everyone … and he’s not! I couldn’t believe it! But then I said, “OK, then
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