I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.