Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

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.

Under no circumstances do I ever want to see any part of me having sex! I wouldn't want to see video tape, pictures, in the mirror, nothing.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.