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.

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

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

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

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols