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" I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. "

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" There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing. "

" Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. "

" When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. "

" Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. "

" What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. "

" I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. "

" I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. "

" I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. "

" As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. "

" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "

" A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. "

" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "

" The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. "

" The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. "

" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "

" In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ. "

" My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' "

" I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste. "

" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "

" The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. "

" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "

" I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "

" I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. "

" If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. "

" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "

" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "

" I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. "

" The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it. "

" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "