When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

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.

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.