Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

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

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

In the future, women will have breasts all over. In the future, it will be a relief to find a place without culture. In the future, plates of food will have names and titles. In the future, we will all drive standing up. In the future, love will be taught on television and by listening to pop songs.

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 wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?