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" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. "

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

" 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. "

" When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. "

" I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. "

" Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down. "

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

" Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. "

" I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. "

" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "

" I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. "

" 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! "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "

" I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. "

" 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 think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "

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

" 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. "

" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

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

" Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. "

" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "

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

" 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. "

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "