My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.