What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

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

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.