“Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by roc...” — Bryce Dessner Quote

Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.

The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.

There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.

For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.