The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.