I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

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

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.