If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

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

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.