I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!