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" I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. "

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" One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. "

" I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. "

" 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.' "

" Music is just air moving around. "

" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "

" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "

" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "

" David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. "

" As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. "

" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. "

" I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. "

" 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. "

" I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' "

" In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. "

" When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. "

" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "

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

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

" 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. "

" My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. "

" I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. "

" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "

" There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. "

" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "

" Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment. "

" Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. "

" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "