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 have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.