As Struggles Go, Being An Artist Isn't

Everything Is An Experiment Until It Has A Deadline. That Gives It A Destination, Context, And A Reason.

I Think We're About Ready For A New Feeling To Enter Music. I Think That Will Come From The Arabic World.

I'm Not Interested In Possible Complexities. I Regard Song Structure As A Graph Paper.

I Occasionally Meet People And They Say, 'oh, I Was Born To Discreet Music'... They Always Have Very Weird Eyes, Those People.

I Got An Amazing 10-cd Set, It's The Music That Alan Lomax Recorded In Haiti In 1936. And What's Incredible Is How Fantastic The Drummers Are And How Off-the-grid They Are. The Liveliness Is Astonishing; They're Just Totally Alive, These Recordings. It's Very Interesting, To Me, To Be Reminded Of That, That There Was A Time When Things Were Not That Tight.