In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.