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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.