What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'