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" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. "

" Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style. "

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" The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. "

" I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. "

" The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. "

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" I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. "

" I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. "

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" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "

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