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

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.