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

When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.

We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

I don't really make records chronologically.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.