Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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

It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong - that’s what we aim for.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).