Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

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".

Simplicity is a most complex form

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

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.