I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.

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

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

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.