There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

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.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

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

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.