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 don't care how impossible it seems.

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

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.