- Okay, I'm going fishing here.
(energetic piano and techno music)
Okay.
My first question is,
help, I'm a prisoner in a Chinese bakery.
No, I'm kidding.
What is your favorite song to play?
My favorite song to play would
probably be You May Be Right.
Of all your memorable lyrics,
which one means the most to you?
Well, that's tough.
I wrote the lyrics to all my songs,
so they all mean a lot to me
'cause they were all a
pain in the ass to write.
Depends on what day it is.
Right now I would say
Summer, Highland Falls.
Tomorrow it'll probably
be something different.
What are some of your favorite
emerging artists at the moment?
I don't have a fucking clue.
Going fishing again.
I don't listen to pop
music, so I don't know
who's emerging or who's submerging.
If you could bring one
artist past or present
on stage with you, who
would it be and why?
I would probably bring
Jimi Hendrix on stage
and I would just sit back
and shut the fuck up.
What is your songwriting process like?
It's like pulling teeth.
Okay, what was the first
concert you ever attended?
The first concert I ever attended.
Wow, that's a tough one.
I think I was a little kid
and I went with my parents
to see a classical symphony.
Probably at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
But I don't remember who it
was or who wrote the music.
Okay.
What do you think has changed the most
about the music industry
since your career began?
Well, what's changed the most,
it's the music industry has
pretty much disappeared.
Now it's all online and
a lot of social media
and the record business is no more.
What else we got here?
If you could perform another
artist's album live in concert,
which album would it be and why?
I'd probably wanna do
Rubber Soul by The Beatles.
I don't know how much piano they have,
but I'll figure something out.
What has been the craziest thing
that has happened to you on stage?
People just keep coming to
see me, which is insane.
Who are your biggest musical influences?
I would say Beethoven.
Chopin.
Leonard Bernstein.
And The Beatles.
Last one.
What song do you have
to play at every show?
Duh.
It's Piano Man.
We can't do a show
without doing that song.
And we are at the bottom of the bowl.
