The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Information doesn't kill you.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.