I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Dynamic benign neglect.

If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.