If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.