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

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I don't like begging money from producers.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.