I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

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

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

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.

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