Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable. Helping our planet is not a one-person or one-country job; we need to be good partners and good neighbors to one another. Routine, measurable, and collective actions both small and large will make an impact.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.