Okay, we'll get to the arrest in a minute. What makes the city so special to you? I've always felt more comfortable in New York than in California. But it's funny, because my feeling about New York is actually that it's a tough place to live. Things move so quickly and it can be very dirty and crowded and rough, but what is so amazing about New York is that you can go into a little restaurant or a little shop or a little bookstore, and all of a sudden, you're in a completely different place. I think people create these environments in New York - these very specific, eccentric environments. If you know of these little secret spots, you can take a turn into one of them, and all of a sudden, it's calm and quiet. If you know enough places like that, New York becomes a much more bearable place to live.

Tell me about some of these escapes. Let's start with food. I love this restaurant called Prune. It's in the East Village, and it's just a teeny restaurant with incredibly good, unpretentious food, and the people who work there are lovely. A lot of people know about it - it's not my secret. You have to wait an hour for brunch, but every meal is delicious. They have this liver dish that's really delicious. Across the street from Prune is Russ & Daughters. It's like an old market on the Lower East Side, and it has incredibly delicious smoked fish, salmon,­ herring, beautiful pickles, and beautiful dried fruit. It kind of feels like it could be 1945 in there. There's another one I like, Café Sabarsky - it's in the Neue Galerie, which is a beautiful old building done in the style of turn-of-the-century Austria. I went there on my birthday and had breakfast at the café, which has all Viennese food, like sausages and warm potato salad and delicious coffee. Everything is so thoughtful, and even the coffee cups look like beautiful Viennese antiques.