I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.