I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.