If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

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.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.