I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

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

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.