Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

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.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.