Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence