I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.