Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to in blogs and newspapers. I better get myself culturally attuned.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.