We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.