The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.