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

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

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

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.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.