The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original. . . and the rest are generally following on, copying.
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.
First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece. . . . It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.
In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.
When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.