Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.