when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.