I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That’s one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
We live in ugly times.
Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.
Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.
My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.
I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.
I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.
I don’t like begging money from producers.
I didn’t have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
There’s an old joke that you know you’re in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it’s the other way around you’re in hell.
Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it’s peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it’s not always the best thing.
Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.