The first profound musical experience I can remember was hearing George Harrison´s guitar solo on, 'I'm Looking Through You' from the 'Rubber Soul' album. It didn't sound like anything I'd ever heard before and my parents couldn't tell me what instrument it was. This was intriguing.
THEN ONE DAY IN THE EIGHTH GRADE . . .

In my music class all the girls would sit around the piano in the first two rows. While directing us through various vocal exercises our teacher would prop his right leg up on the piano bench and although he was a very thin man, there was no mistaking the plump silhouette outlined by his perma-press pants. Once a week we were encouraged to present our music to the rest of the class. One morning a boy from the very back row named Bill brought a song called, 'Brown Shoes Don’t Make It'. All the girls started giggling and fidgeting about nervously and our teacher didn't look very happy. Right in the middle of the song he tore the record from the turntable with this bug-eyed look on his face. To this day, I think that it's one of the greatest things I've ever heard. It was the first time I heard Frank Zappa and he opened many musical doors for me all at once.

SOMETIME LATER . . .

I'm between stations in Berlin and Toronto. My music has been performed in films and at various festivals in Canada and Europe. As a lyricist I've had the good fortune to record with such diverse artists Till Broenner, Mark Murphy, Rammstein, Zeraphine and Tina Trumpp.
For me music and language are similar. It's just whatever you choose or whatever you simply let happen.

Just a few of my musical heroes (in no particular order) include: The Beatles, Copland, Bartók, Satie, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Varese, Webern, Ligeti, Elliot Carter, John Cage, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Bob Lenox, Peter Sinfield, Robert Fripp, Ian Anderson, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Roland Kirk, Wayne Shorter, Dave Liebman, Steve Lacy, Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, James Brown, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Carla Bley, Otis Redding, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Bill Frisell, Prince, Alanis Morrisette, Cole Porter, Thelonius Monk, Frank Zappa and the many friends, colleagues, teachers and professors I've had the good fortune to know and work with.