When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.'

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.