People Use Irony As A Defense Mechanism.

We've Gone Through The Urban Renewal Cycle In The '60s And '70s That Really Did A Lot Of Damage To The Fabric Of Urban Life - Neighborhoods Bulldozed And Highways Pushed Through, And All That Kind Of Stuff That Really Destroyed The Kind Of Social Underpinning And The Kind Of Mom And Pop Stores And All The Stuff That Makes A Community Viable.

Rich People Will Travel Great Distances To Look At Poor People.

Real Sadness Is Such An All-encompassing Intense Thing That It Takes You Out Of Your Humdrum Existence. If You Can Still Function, You Want To Show It While It's Peaking. So When People Tell You To Cheer Up, It's Not Always The Best Thing.

Everything's Intentional. It's Just Filling In The Dots.

With Music, You Often Don't Have To Translate It. It Just Affects You, And You Don't Know Why.