It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn`t have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you`ll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
I`ve always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.
I`d wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn`t have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
