I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

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

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

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.