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 want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

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

Nothing can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars.