The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.