Record the actual sound of my keyboard?

I have a hammond xk3c keyboard and was wondering what the best way to record it's sound onto garageband is. If i plug it into the guitar input on my interface it doesnt sound clean, so i bought an adapter to plug it into the mic input but it still sounds fuzzy. The keyboard has midi ins and outs but ive never done anything with them. Also, i would really like the sound to be stereo because the leslie simulation sounds really awesome.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks

I was assuming the amp itself was part of the sound (as with the Leslie speaker used by many Hammond organ players). If the amp isn't part of the sound, or is simulated in software, which seems to be the case here, then yeah, you're right: go direct. But the poster said the sound he gets going direct isn't satisfactory, which leans toward the use of a better audio interface and/or preamp of some sort.
Here's the keyboard in question:
http://www.hammondorganco.com/readmoreXK3c.htm
That says it has left and right line out (doesn't say what sort of connector, unfortunately), "MIDI In/In2/Out" (by which I can only assume they mean in/out/through?), and headphone out.
I assume those L/R outs are 1/4", though they could be XLR or RCA or, who knows what else. If hooking those up to the Mac via adapters and such doesn't yield a decent sound (ditto for doing the same with the headphone out) then I'd recommend a decent USB audio interface.
In either case, seeing as this thing could be a really nice MIDI controller (though why they didn't add a USB interface is a mystery to me), I'd say it's totally worth the cost of a MIDI interface to hook this thing up and use it as a controller for other software instruments.

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