In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.