When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.

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

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.