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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

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.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.