I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

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.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.