Painting, I think it's like jazz.

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

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn't expected or predicted by what I supplied. Once phase two begins everything is okay, because then the work starts to dictate its own terms. It starts to get an identity which demands certain future moves. But during the first phase you often find that you come to a full stop.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.