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" Acting scares me. "
Scares
Me
Acting
" But, you know, I'd be happy just making music. "
Know
Music
You
" I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me. "
People
Always
Approach
" If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that. "
Someone
Appreciate
Going
" I guess I just want everything to be available immediately. "
Guess
Everything
Want
" I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that. "
Years
Late
Experience
" I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. "
Your
Things
Play
" I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage. "
Time
Love
Music
" I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81. "
Band
Through
Fame
" I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear. "
Thought
Animals
Bird
" Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know? "
Even
Real
Think
" My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off. "
Musicians
Myself
Career
" The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive. "
Sculpture
Somewhere
Time
" What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition. "
Music
Know
Believe
" When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore. "
Writing
Me
Sick
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