I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

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.