When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.

In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.