Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.