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I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.