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.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

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

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.