One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

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