The Year in Interviews

This year we interviewed just under 300 people. From die hard New Yorkers to those just passing through our fair city, here are some our faves. And if you really wanna get reflective, here's our best of interview post from 2007.

The inimitable Donald Fagen of Steely Dan discussed his band's longevity on the eve of their shows at the Beacon Theatre in June.

It’s been about five years since the last Steely Dan album. Is there any inclination to make another? Yeah, we’re talking about doing another album. We have some ideas. When we got into [the music business] it never had this careerist atmosphere that it does now. We were just college hippies trying to have some fun and make some interesting music and I think we basically have the same attitude toward it. We’ve never had any deadlines. When we have something we think is respectable enough to put out that’s when we do it. Now it’s like a job for people; that definitely wasn’t what we were looking for. We wanted to make a living, but basically we just wanted to have a band and make some records and it was all about quality and fun, you know? It was a different world, really. There wasn’t this whole phantasmagoria that we live in now. (Danny Clinch)

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