I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

Life is just a bag of pot.