I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

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

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

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 can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.