Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

it doesn't look like that is going to happen by anything we've heard thus far.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.