The Miami Herald has an inteview: “For Jimmy Buffett, there’s no time to chill”
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/10883325.htm
Among Buffett’s next batch of projects: co-producing Hoot with Frank Marshall. The movie, based on a Carl Hiaasen book, begins shooting in South Florida in June.
Q: You’re up for a Grammy, too, which would be your first if you win. Are you going to attend the ceremony?
A: No.
Q: So can we expect a License to Chill II?
A: No, we’ll do a Jimmy Buffett record. License was fun, but with Mailboat I said I want to make things you can add to your collection. I’m back to that kind of philosophy. I’m looking at material. I haven’t written as much because most of the time has been consumed by that book, but I have two to three songs I’m working on. The great thing is I don’t have to write everything any more. … If I can get three to four good Jimmy Buffett songs on an album I’m happy. What I look for is material where you couldn’t tell the difference.
Q: And now Kenny [Chesney] has recorded a beach album, last week’s No. 1 Be As You Are, in which he tries to be you.
A: It’s flattering. Some people say I should be pissed off about it but I’m really not. The beach is free. As I said before, I was the first singer to go to Key West, but I certainly wasn’t the first writer. As shameless plagiarists we all steal from everybody else; that’s part of the process. I consider that a good thing. Hell, I stole from Harry Belafonte and Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell. … It’s the highest form of flattery, and I’m fine with it.