When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.