There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.
Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.
Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I feel a clear and overwhelming feeling of optimism. It didn't surprise me when a study a few years ago implied that suicide was much less likely among coffee and tea drinkers.
The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.
There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.
Usually I'm trying to get away from my discography. I don't think I could tear down everything I've done, the structures I've created - you know, like what Miles Davis did eight times in a row, which was destroy every kind of crutch or system he had for making music. That's very, very difficult. When I reflect on my catalog, I'm very proud of it, and I love it, but what I want to do now is completely different. When I don't do something different, I feel like I'm cheating - consciously or unconsciously stealing from myself.
To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for years in the studio, when I hear a No Age record or when I hear Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first EP or when I hear DRI or really early punk stuff, it's just so powerful, so raw - and I know how hard that is to create. It's very deceptive. It's like a Dardenne brothers film - it seems like just a handheld camera following some people around in a trailer park, but it's incredibly difficult to do that.
I think the team will think this was an O. K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.
The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.
Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table. . . join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.