I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

I woke up and one of us was crying.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.