The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.

There's no religion but sex and music.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.