broadway i saw the empire state lay low life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs left there long ago to tell the world about the way the light went out to keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason we can tap into that as musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing this series of in-depth interviews with really extraordinary people we started thinking about whom we should try to get and whom we should ask. and we thought about the usual political figures, obama, the dali lama. and i come back to the idea of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a rockstar for five decades. today he keeps up his nearly ten-yearlong residency at madison square garden playing the piano and belting out the lyrics that so many fans adore. he s sold more than 150 million reco
And originally it went anthony works in the grocery store saving his pennies for sunday they looked at me and they re like that s laughter in the rain by neal, and i m like, crap, i wrote all those words for nothing. so i changed the melody. so i wrote a whole new song. so in a way it was a motivator to write a completely new song. and when you talk about the ones that aren t that good when you talk about captain jack, you say, well, it s only got two chords, and i don t understand what do you mean when you say for a layman what does that mean? it gets boring. captain jack after having done it for 30, 40 years, i ve demoted him to private jack. it s two chords.