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I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.
To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‘Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.’
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
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.
There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
We don’t make music – it makes us.