I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.

Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

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'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.