Physical contact is a human necessity.

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Architecture theory is very interesting.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.