The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Life I love you, all is groovy.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.