I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs...'

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

All human belief systems are inherently flawed.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

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