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.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

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.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.