Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.