What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.