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" I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. "

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" I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. "

" Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. "

" I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album. "

" You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. "

" I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. "

" I'm a humanist. "

" The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. "

" The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. "

" I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. "

" I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd. "

" You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. "

" For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about. "

" It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. "

" Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. "

" There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. "

" Take a walk on the wild side. "

" I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. "

" You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. "

" Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. "

" I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says. "

" I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother. "

" I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs. "

" I don't like overdubs, never liked them. "

" When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played. "

" Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. "

" I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room. "

" People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi. "

" When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment. "

" I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket. "

" I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running. "