What are the five albums that have most influence you?
Songs From a Room – Leonard Cohen, Greatest Hits Volume 2 – Hank Williams, Mutations – Beck, Aupres de Mon Abre - Georges Brassens, Tonight’s The Night – Neil Young.

What’s the best concert you have ever been to?
Jonathan Richman, North 6 in Brooklyn, summer of 2005. Best show ever.

If you could have been a musician in any era when would it be?
I would be Louis Armstrong, because he’s the best ever.

What’s the best gig you have ever performed?
The best gig I ever played was at La Cigale opening for Herman Dune in 2006, because I felt like Bob in the Albert Hall in Don’t Look Back.

Is there any particular venue you would like to play?
It would be Madison Square Garden, because I could take the train home after the show.

What books have you read and films have you seen recently?
I just finished Bruce Catton’s History of the Civil War. A movie I particularly liked last year was The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

CD, Vinyl or MP3?
Vinyl, of course.

John or Paul?
Ringo.

East Coast or West Coast?
Brooklyn all the way.

Dylan or Elvis?
Bob all the way.