People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit...
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
I don’t care how impossible it seems.
I’m just an advertisement for a version of myself.
There’s still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don’t. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn’t communicate anything.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
There’s a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it’s their true feeling.
To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm’s length. They don’t want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that’s at least as relevant as what’s being done here.
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.
As music becomes less of a thing – a cylinder, a cassette, a disc – and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.