When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!
I don't really make records chronologically.
I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine. '
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
You can't keep an exciting fashion down.
I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.