So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.

I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed. So I sort of turn things over to whatever you want to call it - whether it's God, or the universe or the spirit of the universe - and I just sort of turn things over to God and hope that this spirit that has been around for 15 billion years will have a better understanding of how things should be than I do.