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I was very much a child of the Cold War.
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So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.
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Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
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I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always problematic. They may end happily ever after, but someone's getting pushed into an oven or has blood in her shoe.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
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To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.
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Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.
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Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.
