As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

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

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

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

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

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 love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.