What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
That’d be a lot of things. On the wall of our house when I was growing up in Brooklyn, my father had pictures of African kings and...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Changed my life? For some reason that phrase makes me feel icky. Things don't change people; people change themselves in response to...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Depeche Mode has always been an undeniable and obvious influence, and Speak & Spell was one of the first albums that made me aware of...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I think it was 1955 when my father brought home a TV set. I was four years old, and I watched the Mickey Mouse Club every day. My...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Picasso's Guernica, Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, Beethoven's Ninth, the [Michael Roemer] film Nothing But A Man, performances of...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Neil Jordan's film Interview With the Vampire. There is so much in that film that affected me. The story and characters are so deep. I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did affect you?
Most recently, it was Axis: Bold as Love by Jimi Hendrix. After growing up with his music but never really being aware of his gift, one...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I would say one piece of art that changed my life is The Flaming Lips album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The first time I heard the...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The first time I entered a jazz club at 17 was the first time I heard real jazz. That changed my life. It was a super hip white-table-...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It's tough, because I've been inspired all my life by visual art and literature in addition to music. But I'd have to say, in terms of my...
