There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.
It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.