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

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.

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.

There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.

Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked by, took me ever farther from getting to them in time and closer to losing the red dragon forever.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

I tried to control the narrative.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.