We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.