You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Take a walk on the wild side.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.