My First Guitar, A Fender Jazz Master,

I Think Kids In Europe Have Developed A Deeper Knowledge Of Music And Of Black Music In Particular. You Go To Europe, And These Kids Know About All This Obscure Funk And Soul That Kids Over Here Wouldn't Know. I Think It's Getting Better In The States, Though, With The Age Of The Internet.

My Mom And Dad Would Take Me All Over. One Night We'd Be At The Apollo Watching James Brown, And Then I'd Be At The Joffrey Ballet. It Was That Kind Of Scene.

A Lot Of People Don't Listen To The Lyrics, Really.

I Have A Great Time With My Band And On The Stage We Get Along Well.

Me Being In My Grandmother's Yard In Brooklyn. I Must Have Been About 3. I Had This Red Balloon. I Let Go Of It, And It Went Up Into The Sky And Just Kept Going And Going. I Completely Flipped Out, Because I Didn't Understand Why.