Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.