Amanda Petrusich

Brian Eno is an English musician and producer whose career is so vast and adventurous it really can't be easily encapsulated. But here's my best shot. After leaving the glam rock band Roxy Music in the early 70s, he released a series of extraordinary solo records.

Brian Eno is an English musician and producer whose career is so vast and adventurous it really can't be easily encapsulated. But here's my best shot. After leaving the glam rock band Roxy Music in the early 70s, he released a series of extraordinary solo records.

Brian Eno is an English musician and producer whose career is so vast and adventurous it really can't be easily encapsulated. But here's my best shot. After leaving the glam rock band Roxy Music in the early 70s, he released a series of extraordinary solo records.

Somewhere along the way, he essentially invented, or at the very least named, ambient music, which is what we now call any minimalist electronic composition. But for me, it's really just kind of a thing that you feel in your body, in all the soft and tender places that go untouched by thought. That idea of tapping into something less thinky and more instinctive is present in everything Eno does.

Somewhere along the way, he essentially invented, or at the very least named, ambient music, which is what we now call any minimalist electronic composition. But for me, it's really just kind of a thing that you feel in your body, in all the soft and tender places that go untouched by thought. That idea of tapping into something less thinky and more instinctive is present in everything Eno does.

Somewhere along the way, he essentially invented, or at the very least named, ambient music, which is what we now call any minimalist electronic composition. But for me, it's really just kind of a thing that you feel in your body, in all the soft and tender places that go untouched by thought. That idea of tapping into something less thinky and more instinctive is present in everything Eno does.

Eno's work has been a funny kind of North Star in my life. He's someone who's obviously thought quite deeply about art and love and culpability and desire and duty and risk and what it means to honor the very wild fact of your existence.

Eno's work has been a funny kind of North Star in my life. He's someone who's obviously thought quite deeply about art and love and culpability and desire and duty and risk and what it means to honor the very wild fact of your existence.

Eno's work has been a funny kind of North Star in my life. He's someone who's obviously thought quite deeply about art and love and culpability and desire and duty and risk and what it means to honor the very wild fact of your existence.

Brian, you're giving me goosebumps. You're right. It is in many ways the only question that matters. And it reminds me, it brings me back to love, which is an experience that requires surrender, which is another theme in the book. And you point out that a fixation on control ultimately makes a person's world very small.

Brian, you're giving me goosebumps. You're right. It is in many ways the only question that matters. And it reminds me, it brings me back to love, which is an experience that requires surrender, which is another theme in the book. And you point out that a fixation on control ultimately makes a person's world very small.

Brian, you're giving me goosebumps. You're right. It is in many ways the only question that matters. And it reminds me, it brings me back to love, which is an experience that requires surrender, which is another theme in the book. And you point out that a fixation on control ultimately makes a person's world very small.

You write, the raw, wild world develops and leaves us behind playing solitaire on our phones.

You write, the raw, wild world develops and leaves us behind playing solitaire on our phones.

You write, the raw, wild world develops and leaves us behind playing solitaire on our phones.

In 2022, you said, I think we're in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity. And it seems to me so far that you are right. But I wanted to ask you a little bit about some of your advocacy and particularly your climate advocacy, because I think the enormity of some of these problems can lead people to just panic and freeze.

In 2022, you said, I think we're in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity. And it seems to me so far that you are right. But I wanted to ask you a little bit about some of your advocacy and particularly your climate advocacy, because I think the enormity of some of these problems can lead people to just panic and freeze.

In 2022, you said, I think we're in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity. And it seems to me so far that you are right. But I wanted to ask you a little bit about some of your advocacy and particularly your climate advocacy, because I think the enormity of some of these problems can lead people to just panic and freeze.

Although I think I sense something in the book and in the new music and in some of the work you've been doing. More recently, I feel like I sense a bit of optimism as well.

Although I think I sense something in the book and in the new music and in some of the work you've been doing. More recently, I feel like I sense a bit of optimism as well.