Didn’t we interview your son for �The Look Book� last year?
Yes, and I’m actually going to pick Ollie up from school. When I’m here on the Upper West Side, I like to stop into Zabar’s for a snack. I love their olives. I used to hate olives, until I went to Greece a few years ago, and now I’m obsessed!
What are your other go-to spots? Well, I love Bouley for dinner. Hands down, the best food. But when people want to take a meeting with me, I always make it at Coffee Shop; they can’t hear anything I say because I talk so soft, and I can’t hear what they’re saying, so it’s always a big ball of confusion, and no one gets anything done, so I think that’s successful.
Do you still go out a lot?
Not really. I’ll only go out if I’m seeing a band that I got a demo from that I might produce. But sometimes, if I see bands play and I really like them, I’ll think to myself, Why aren’t I doing that? But then I don’t really feel like doing it, so I don’t, but it gets me, like, kind of pissed. I also know how it feels to be up there onstage and all that stuff, so I can kind of see through the magic curtain or whatever.