All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.