Art in any form inspires me. It's what makes life interesting. I have been called "dark", but mostly I am not. I sleep only enough to stay awake. I eat only to stop the cravings. I am spiritual, but not religious. I enjoy company and conversation, but only in small doses. I am colorblind, literally and figuratively. I believe everyone has a public life, a private life, and a secret life. I think most people want to be something they are not, but fail to take action. I am obsessed with the creation of music. For me, music is life; and death. I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
Video of Glen and I at a recent XEO3 show.
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XEO3 "Strange Fruit" Teaser
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Imagine
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My Live Rig
"...I always thought that music had no boundaries, no limits to where it could grow and go, no restrictions on it's creativity. Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. And I always hated categories. Always. Never thought it had any place in music."
(Miles Davis)
"In order to take control of our lives and accomplish something of lasting value, sooner or later we need to Believe. We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us."
(Benjamin Hoff - "The Tao of Pooh")
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
(Woody Allen)
"Chaos is where brilliant dreams are born. Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd."
(I Ching)
"Each of us must be the change we want to see in the world."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir mens blood and probably in themselves will not be realized."
(Daniel H. Burnham)
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
(Helen Keller)
"If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin; then mister, you're a better man than I."
(Steven Tyler)
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
(George Eliot)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst."
(Frank Frankfort Moore)
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
(Thomas Hardy)
"I am likely to miss the main event, if I stop to cry or complain again. So I will keep a deliberate pace. Let the damned breeze dry my face."
(Fiona Apple)
I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
(Emile Zola)
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"
(Albert Einstein)
"Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones."
(I Ching)
"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
(Dave Barry)
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
(Aesop)
"I want to go on a mountain top with a radio and good batteries. And play a joyous tune and free the human race from suffering. It doesnt scare me at all."
(Bjork)
"Ah, wasteful woman, she who may, On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but to pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine."
(Coventry Patmore 1823-1896, The Angel in the House, Bk i. 3, Prelude 3)
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine."
(Ben Jonson 1573–1637 To Celia)
"Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring."
(Roman Polanski)
