I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I never really achieved any kind of comfortable financial success, so I just associate it with struggle. When I had a chance to get out, I was elated.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.