I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.