Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
My songs are like my kids.
It feels great to have a #1 album.
If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
I've crashed my car three times.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
