The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

Music is just air moving around.

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.

I've dated some very enthusiastic, attractive people and some very unenthusiastic, less attractive people. I see no correlation. But female friends of mine who have dated male public figures have found that is the case. They say male models are terrible in bed, because they feel like just showing up is all the effort they need to make.

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.