Poetry Is The Hardest Thing That There

To Me, Religion Is An Agreement Between A Group Of People About What God Is. Spirituality Is A One-on-one Relationship.

I Think It's Obvious That Democracy Is Something That Is Contagious, And It Always Has Been.

I Make An Embarrassing Amount Of Money For A Borderline Marxist, Just By Selling 100,000 Records. I Don't Sell Millions Of Records, And I Don't Need To.

You Make Decisions, And That's What Separates Art From Some Other Pop Music. It Doesn't Mean That You Can't Make An Embarrassing Amount Of Money, For A Borderline Marxist, Doing Something That You Love, But It Does Mean That This Huge Pool Of Money That Was Out There When I Started Making Records In The '80s Is Gone.

The Creative Core Of New York Has Never Been Native New Yorkers; It's People From All Over The World.