You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.