Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Love heals scars love left