I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

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.

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.

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.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

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