I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I suppose listening to a double album is kind of like going to the chiropractor... It's pretty good for you but you can't force it on anyone else.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.

Almost everything a person thinks is a lie, and an assault against the natural soul.

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.