A friend gave me two of his albums on CD, and soon after that the Pink Moon Volkswagen ad came out, which I could really relate to. I was hooked.

Nick's virtual refusal to play live didn't help, and his shows when he did play were often not well received. I also think that Island records didn't put a lot of promotional work into it after the failure of the first two.

In early stages of the project some of us were very against a bronze bust because we had all seen the horrible Lucille Ball bust and other failures. When I went to the webpage of the person we choose I could recognize the subject of most of his works immediately and thought 'he's the one'

I love this album. Not a bad track on it.

I was not the sculpture but I was deeply involved in the creation of the statue. Faces are hard, and the sculpture worked really hard to get what he did, which was approved by Paramount and Kate Mulgrew.