A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.