The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.