In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.