I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.
I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?
I think happy, companionate marriages between men and women who respect each other (as far as is consistent with being actual human beings) should be every bit as poetry-worthy as angst, bitterness, and shame.
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.
The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.
I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.
Risk is an essential part of progress.
More American companies are getting bought by foreign firms or they`re becoming foreign firms or they`re outsourcing. Right now the tax code says if you want to make something in another country and re-import it back into America, go ahead and do that. We don`t want to incentivize that.
I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.