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.

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

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

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.