Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex.

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.