Jules Shear

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.