I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.
If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too loud.
I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
