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

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I don't like begging money from producers.

Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth, then they can kind of mouth it with kind of believable sincerity, even if some of us.

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.