I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.