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

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

I never really followed grunge.

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

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

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