If You're Going To Do Chuck Berry,

Record Companies Are Not Necessarily Interested In You Realizing Your Artistic Dream. The Bottom Line Is That They Got To Sell Records.

I Like To Read The 'financial Times' When I'm Traveling. 'economist.' 'ad Busters.'

Twitter Freaks Me Out. You Have Followers? It Feels So Obsessive And Proprietary.

So Rather Than Really Have, Like A Close Relationship To Anything That's Coming Out Today, People Are Just, They've Got It On As Background Music. It's Kind Of The Same Way The Cabdrivers Use Music; It's Very Disposable. But, That Doesn't Mean There Aren't A Great Number Of Artists Who Are Doing Things To Change That.

What I Take From Writers I Like Is Their Economy - The Ability To Use Language To Very Effective Ends. The Ability To Have Somebody Read Something And See It, Or For Somebody To Paint An Entire Landscape Of Visual Imagery With Just Sheets Of Words - That's Magical.