I could've given up on music and stuck with my day job. But I chose to work hard and articulate my sound. I look back on that time and I think to myself: I used it wisely.

The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an instrument symbolic of modern European music.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Life goes up and down. So I just incorporate it with my music. I'm just blessed.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.