There's more good music being made now than ever before.

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

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

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.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

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.