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" Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. "

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" 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. "

" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "

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

" I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "

" Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. "

" 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. "

" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "

" With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. "

" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "

" 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. "

" In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense! "

" 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. "

" I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "

" I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. "

" People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. "

" Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. "

" 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. "

" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

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

" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "

" There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. "

" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "

" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "

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

" One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune. "

" That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. "

" Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. "

" We don't make music - it makes us. "