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" I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "

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" New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day. "

" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "

" If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. "

" As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it. "

" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "

" In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. "

" It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel. "

" My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. "

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" I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable. "

" The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' "

" You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming. "

" What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. "

" Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. "

" I love going on tour and playing music for people. "

" You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you. "

" It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics. "

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

" The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. "