Always be skeptical about simplicity.

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

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.