One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.