What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For various reasons, I had a debilitating case of writers block. I thought my career was over and then my friend Adrian Arleo showed me...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The book that changed my life is The Game OF Life And How To Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn, and the film that was a revelation was The...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The first three notes of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Why does it make us feel that way? It has that spacious, poignant, happy, sad...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The Art that has changed my life recently was the Buddah statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. In spite of their...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The melancholy and mystery of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" showed me a whole new way I could approach songwriting. I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Stan Brakhage's films Moth Light (1963) and The Dante Quartet (1987). I saw Moth Light when I was in junior high or high school (13 or...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The paintings of Francisco Goya—especially “Saturn Devouring One of His Sons”—are truly remarkable. Saturn is frightening and furious. His...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky. I was overwhelmed when I first heard the ballet; such prominent use of percussion, rhythmic...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
4'33'' by John Cage. I realized that music begins when you start listening rather than when you start playing. By extent music is...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It was a piece of film I saw on TV when I was really young, a documentary about Big Bill Broonzy [called Low Light and Blue Smoke]. A...
