I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Simplicity is a most complex form

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".