Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy‚ but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat‚ and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.

A bike is the world's most used form of transportation

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.