I Love Writing. I Don't Claim To

A Lot Of Cities Are Making A Real Effort, Neighborhood By Neighborhood, To Make Themselves Into A Place Where Life Can Be Pretty Good.

Something About Music Urges Us To Engage With Its Larger Context, Beyond The Piece Of Plastic It Came On-it Seems To Be Part Of Our Genetic Makeup That We Can Be So Deeply Moved By This Art Form. Music Resonates In So Many Parts Of The Brain That We Can't Conceive Of It Being An Isolated Thing.

I've Rarely Seen Video Screens Used Well In A Music Concert.

I'm No Lance Armstrong, But I Do Use A Bike To Get From Place To Place In Manhattan, A Little Bit Of Brooklyn.

As Music Becomes Less Of A Thing--a Cylinder, A Cassette, A Disc--and More Ephemeral, Perhaps We Will Begin To Assign An Increasing Value To Live Performances Again.