To Shake Your Rump Is To Be

There's Still A Feeling That Uncensored Emotions Make A Good Song. They Don't. Pure Emotion Is Just Somebody Screaming At You, Or Crying. It Doesn't Communicate Anything.

On A Bike, Being Just Slightly Above Pedestrian And Car Eye Level, One Gets A Perfect View Of The Goings-on In One's Own Town.

A Lot Of Cities Are Making A Real Effort, Neighborhood By Neighborhood, To Make Themselves Into A Place Where Life Can Be Pretty Good.

Human Beings Have The Incredible Capacity For Denial. I Think They Do. And Although It's Really Hard To Believe, I Have My Doubts. But My Feeling Is That First They Have To Convince Themselves. First They Have To Justify This Stuff To Themselves And If They Can Do That, Even For Just The Moment That It's Coming Out Their Mouth, Then They Can Kind Of Mouth It With Kind Of Believable Sincerity, Even If Some Of Us.

Ninety Percent Of All Music Is Always Crap, And When Too Many People Decide They're Going To Have Guitar Bands, Then Ninety Percent Of Them Are Going To Be Crap. It's Just A Given Law.