When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

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.

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

Music is just air moving around.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.