Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Seek the truth

Ah hon, we all have our own demons to fight, guardians or not.

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome.