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" I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. "
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" People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them. "
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" The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. "
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" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "
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" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "
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" 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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" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "
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" Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. "
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" 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. "
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" I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' "
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" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "
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