When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

You're going to reap just what you sow

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.