I found music to be the therapy of choice.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?