The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

When you're signed to a big label you're always in the position of convincing them, especially now because labels are barely keeping the lights on, so getting them to spend a little bit of money is really hard.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

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.

No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.