There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of the whowhatwhere.com and I read all of the fashion blogs. I'm working my way up to more grown up pieces.
Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.
Blogs are evil. Actually, the blogs aren't as evil as blog comments.
When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.
