With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

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.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.