I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

What's really fun is to write under different names.