You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.