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" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "
Most
Press
Because
" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "
Song
Think
Music
" A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost. "
Brooklyn
Lost
Strange
" A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. "
People
Random
Believe
" A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. "
Involved
Lot
Music
" A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. "
Cool
Women
Result
" As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. "
Blue
Proud
New York
" As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. "
Far
Get
Music
" As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it. "
Want
Strange
Long
" As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. "
Like
Music
Financial
" As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives. "
Over
Connection
Internet
" At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. "
Connections
Random
Morning
" Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. "
City
Food
Easy
" But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. "
Regret
Same
Point
" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "
People
Believe
Good
" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "
Find
You
Good
" David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. "
Love
Music
Friend
" Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. "
Life
Shame
Dog
" Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance. "
Day
World
Window
" Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet. "
Always
Interview
Eat
" For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. "
Choose
See
Music
" For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer. "
New York
Beautiful
City
" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "
Know
Fans
War
" For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. "
Music
Mom
Church
" Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. "
Growing Up
Diversity
Growing
" Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous. "
Course
Supermodel
Ridiculous
" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "
Absurd
Always
Feel
" I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. "
Children
Quality
Life
" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
Intention
Things
Living
" I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. "
Life
Think
Talking
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