I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

The key is: never fold.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.