Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.