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

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" If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability. "

" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "

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

" I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own. "

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

" 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. "

" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "

" The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work. "

" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "

" There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to. "

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

" Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous. "

" Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign. "

" 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'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "

" 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. "

" In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. "

" Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. "

" I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. "

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

" I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music. "

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

" When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives. "

" I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst. "

" If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. "

" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "