You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the truth, whether I wanted to believe it or not. You know, I was young and naive or in denial. But he really was a special, special human being.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

You don't know where you're going.