Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.