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.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.