I Grew Up In The Lower East

Food Tells You Everything About The Way People Live And Who They Are.

Well The Thing Is That The New York Of 1846 To 1862 Was Very Different From Downtown New York Now. Really Nothing From That Period Still Exists In New York.

An Interviewer Once Asked Me To Discuss My Collaboration With Elmer Bernstein, And Precisely Why I Chose To Work With Him. My First Thought Was: How Could I Not Work With Elmer, When I Had The Chance? Simply Put, He's The Best There Is-the Very Best.

Rock & Roll Seemed To Just Come To Us, On The Radio And In The Record Stores. It Became Our Music. . . But Then We Uncovered Another, Deeper Level, The History Behind Rock And R&b, The Music Behind Our Music. All Roads Led To The Source, Which Was The Blues.

Mean Streets Dealt With The American Dream, According To Which Everybody Thinks They Can Get Rich Quick, And If They Can't Do It By Legal Means Then They'll Do It By Illegal Ones.