“Music helped me to weather the storms of this autofiction story of fathers and sons, and I know I will continue to use music with new writing projects and genres as I move forward.”
“Hair for Men explores two aspects of music through the lens of Louise: one is the way angry music can ease the pain of a furious young person, the other is the way age, wisdom, and experience can soften the harsh perspectives you cleave to as a furious young person and can make you love music you once hated.”
“Kraftwerk was always a beautiful mystery.”
“That is what being a Rasta means… to find the God or King within YOU and to carry yourself as such. And if we could all do that (no matter our status in life) we could elevate ourselves, first from within, and then beyond.”
“Cloud Missives is itself a compilation, a coin jar of a book containing poems written over the course of more than a decade and across many different concepts.”
“These characters were basically ciphers for my changing obsessions during the different phases of writing and editing the bulk of the novel – obsessions that were frequently musical.”
“Music, like everything else, is cyclical. The ’80s holds similarities to today not only in fashion and politics but also in the tunes Casey Kasem told us about on America’s Top 40.”
“Music has a powerful ability to embody the irrational and the uncanny–precisely those unsettling aspects of our lives that intrigue me as a storyteller.”
“The parallels between a story collection and a playlist are obvious, but it seems like the playlist as a form has a lot in common with the novel, too.”
“My Sisyphean task is to forever attempt with words what would be better done with sound…”