If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

If I can't do that at age 33, I'll probably never be able to do it. As you enter your thirties, things get a little more squiggly, with life spreading out in different directions. All of that makes me think that now's the time to do what you really want to do and not have that same type of youthful anxiety about every step.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.