16 Quotes by Ken Baumann

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.