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

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.

Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.