One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.

For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

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

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