I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.

Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark.

I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.