Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense that these could live forever. I was just starting to get my head around the democratic aspect of art; I didn't want to make rarefied things that were either alienatingly obscure or elite and art-worldy, so a recording that anyone could buy was a great medium.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.