Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Hamlet got a gun now.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.