I’m content with making records, but I don’t want to be doing the same thing all the time.

If I’m interested in what I’m doing, other people will be interested in it.

I’m writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the ’60s. I’ve been reading so many novels.

Even if you’re improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

In cities like New York and Austin, there’s much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I like what the future holds. I don’t like thinking about the past.

I never use the word, it’s loaded. What love means to me is need.

If you’re all loaded up on love, you haven’t got anywhere else to go.

When somebody grabs a movement, you’re kind of locked into it. It’s all par for the course.

I’m impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.