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" I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. "

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" Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. "

" The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. "

" I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. "

" 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. "

" Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. "

" We live in ugly times. "

" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "

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

" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "

" 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.' "

" There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. "

" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "

" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

" 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. "

" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "

" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "

" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "

" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "

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

" I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "

" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "

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

" I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "

" 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. "

" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "

" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "