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" All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. "
Few
Label
Needed
" Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? "
Edges
Wants
Who
" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "
Community
Coming
Anything
" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "
Things
More
Idea
" Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. "
You
Before
Technology
" Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. "
Good
You
Way
" Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. "
Joy
Transport
Cycling
" Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. "
People
Creative
Demons
" Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. "
Think
Yes
Change
" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "
Better
History
You
" Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. "
Central Park
Meaning
Park
" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "
Game
Web
Name
" Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. "
Dots
Intentional
Just
" Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "
Music
Technology
Think
" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "
Functional
Frank
Beautiful
" From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little. "
More
New
Paris
" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "
Unlimited
You
Having
" I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. "
Because
Always
Think
" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "
Immigrant
Vote
Election
" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "
Artist
Fine
New York
" I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. "
Artist
Leg
Me
" I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know. "
Focus
You
Surprises
" I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "
Green
Rolling
Pictures
" I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "
Stage
People
Got
" I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. "
Way
New York
Good
" I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. "
Started
Writing
Plan
" I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. "
Guy
Suit
More
" I don't like begging money from producers. "
Like
Begging
Producers
" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "
Car
Radio
Much
" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "
Faster
Going
People
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