I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.