That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

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

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