I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.