Physical contact is a human necessity.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.
Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.
I love getting out of my comfort zone.
The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.
