With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

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

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

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