I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.

I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.

Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.