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.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.