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. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

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.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.