I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.