If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's incredible. You feel like you are there.