When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.