Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

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

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.