The plan was to go Juilliard, graduate, and then go across the street and play in the New York Philharmonic - that was the plan, anyway.

I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was too much for me.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

New York is my home.