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

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

I don't like begging money from producers.

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

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

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.

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