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

It takes a unique woman to see me as any sort of catch.

I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that's being created, but there's also the magic of the fact that you're essentially creating something from nothing.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.