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

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

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