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" I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. "

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" Wayne Coyne has put out Flaming Lips records in gummy bear skulls and all these different kinds of packaging that's really, really inventive. And that's what you should always do. "

" When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. "

" The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming. "

" I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of. "

" Art should not be an easy thing. "

" There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. "

" I don't know anything about the wine world at all. "

" I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be. "

" I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone. "

" I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it. "

" My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi. "

" I get very, very little sleep. "

" Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage. "

" When I'm hungry, I need to eat right away. "

" As far as value goes, obviously it's nicer to be in an environment where you feel comfortable. But it's also clear that it's probably not the most realistic thing. "

" Questlove redefined what a band can be, and Paul Shaffer and Max Weinberg really put their own spin on it. I bow down to these people. All of them. "

" I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person. "

" I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing. "

" There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels. "

" I'm drawn to punk. I'm drawn to samba a bit. I don't think there's a type of music I'm not drawn to. Lykke Li I really like. Holy Sons I still can't get enough of. "

" That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed. "

" I feel like Miami is way, way too hot. "

" Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him. "

" I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far. "

" Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV. "

" My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems. "

" The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work? "

" I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas? "

" I see everything as a positive that can only help me. "