I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

We live in ugly times.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means - allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece - when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there's an instant "Aha!".