I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.