There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.

When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

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.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.