Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

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

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

My God is rock'n'roll.

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.