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

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" From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little. "

" To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. "

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" I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "

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

" The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? "

" 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'm guarded; I don't talk much. "

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

" 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. "

" We live in ugly times. "

" Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. "

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. "

" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "

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

" When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. "

" 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! "

" On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. "

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

" There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. "

" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. "

" Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. "

" In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words. "