I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.
Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano... If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.
There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.
In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are always preaching nonconformity - you know, "I'm just gonna go my own way and be my own man and blah blah blah" - but they're the first ones to do so many things that they have to do. They have to do that hip-hop thing, a certain way of walking, and it's so conformist.
I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.
I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.
I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.
I do think there's a great deal of politics mixed in rap. Their reference to the real world is much better than most, particularly a lot of women who seem like all they do is sing about love. Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life. I don't understand why that's all they concentrate on, except that that's what they're encouraged to do, because if you keep thinking about love, you'll be less of a challenge. I like that about rap. It's got power to it.
I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
Less money for public media means less access to the arts.
You have to reflect honestly what's around you in your music. I think a lot of people are just obsessed with their own relationships, so that is an honest reflection of what they see. A lot of people don't go much deeper than that.
You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
As long as you have imagination, you never need to work. You never get bored. You could just walk around and go to museums and check out new movies. You could be busy in New York city for 10,000 years.
I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.
I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.
I'm just kind of sick of music. I don't know what I want to do. It's not that I feel suicidal or anything, but I just want to end this life. I just want to be somebody else now. Sometimes I feel like that. You always think, "If I just cut my hair really short and dye it brown and put on a little goatee, no one would know it was me, and I could..."
Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.
