Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

We don't make music, it makes us

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.