There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.
I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
I've never lived in New York. I've never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that's in my future. Have that experience - get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf.
I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.
There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.