There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!