I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

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.

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

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

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.