A Is For Answering All Your Prayers,

I Think It's An Essential Fact For Any Performer Or Artist To Fail As Poignantly As They Can Succeed.

It's Very Intuitive, The Way That I Approach My Work. I Only Buy Something That Has A Pulse. I May Not Know How I'm Going To Use It, But I Know It Has A Pulse And It Has Multiple Readings - If I Shift It One Way Or Another, It Can Be Read This Way Or It Can Be Read That Way, But Both Readings Are Critical And Very Much Ground The Work.

My Music Has To Do With Beauty, And It's Intended To, If Not Lift The Spirits, Then Be A Kind Of A Balm To The Spirits.

I Think There's A Certain Numbness In Modern Society, That Accepts Certain Kinds Of Violence, But Represses Other Kinds Of Violence.

What I Think About When I Frequent The Museum Of Natural History, The Metropolitan [museum Of Art], And I Look At These Artifacts That Are Taken Out Of Context And How We're Forced To View Them As Objects, As Relics, As Sculpture- Static. But What's Interesting Is What It Allows Me To Do In My Head In Terms Of Imagining What The Possibilities Are Or Imagining The Role In Which They Played Within A Particular Culture Which I'm Fascinated By.