I Don't Like Begging Money From Producers.

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

Well, Marx Is Having A Comeback. I Hear Him Mentioned A Lot In Terms Of The Global Financial Situation And The General Sense Of Injustice Out There. A Lot Of Economic Experts In America Refer To Him Without Actually Using The M Word, But He's Around.

My Favorite Term For A New Kind Of Performance Is "security Theater." In This Genre, We Watch As Ritualized Inspections And Patdowns Create The Illusion Of Security. It's A Form That Has Become Common Since 9/11, And Even The Government Agencies That Participate In This Activity Acknowledge,off The Record, That It Is Indeed A Species Of Theater.

We Do Express Our Emotions, Our Reactions To Events, Breakups And Infatuations, But The Way We Do That - The Art Of It - Is In Putting Them Into Prescribed Forms Or Squeezing Them Into New Forms That Perfectly Fit Some Emerging Context. That’s Part Of The Creative Process, And We Do It Instinctively; We Internalize It, Like Birds Do. And It’s A Joy To Sing, Like The Birds Do.

To Some Extent I Happily Don't Know What I'm Doing. I Feel That It's An Artist's Responsibility To Trust That.