You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

I finally discovered that my life is more important than show business.

I was always laughing in church.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.