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

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.