One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.

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.