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" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

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" The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

" The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert. "

" 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. "

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

" There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. "

" I don't like begging money from producers. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. "

" I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

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

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

" We live in ugly times. "

" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "

" 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. "

" Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. "

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

" 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. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. "

" Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. "

" 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. "