I don't care how impossible it seems.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

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

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it