I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.