Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

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