Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry – poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs – is how the world works. The world isn’t logical; it’s a song.
Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea– do I have to choose between the two?
Presuming that there is such a thing as “progress” when it comes to music, and that music is “better” now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t “improve.
The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.
Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn’t just placate and pacify.
Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.
It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It’s just a part of discovering who you are; it’s nothing special.
There’s a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.
The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.
Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it’s a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?