I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

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

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.