The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.

Nothing can stop us now 'cause we are all made of stars.

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

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