I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

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

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

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

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.

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.