I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent - and I can't really complain because I'm sort of bourgeois and affluent myself, but I like living in a place where artists and musicians and writers can actually pay the rent.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.