The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. . . . It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. . . . I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. . . . The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this. ". . . It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.
