Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.

My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.