It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.