With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.