The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.