I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

Let peace and beauty reign.

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.