What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open. For the most part at the moment we get less information for slightly less money - though we could be getting a lot more.

A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own country, and often thought a lot of countries have a diaspora that breaks out all over the place, so they have a pretty wide audience.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

Body odor is the window to the soul.

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

The arts don't exist in isolation.