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" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "

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" So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame. "

" If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. "

" I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. "

" I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "

" The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "

" When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. "

" With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. "

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? "

" Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. "

" I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either. "

" I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "

" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "

" I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. "

" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "

" It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. "

" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "

" When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. "

" I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? "

" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "

" Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. "

" Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. "

" Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. "

" Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. "