There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.