You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.