My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.