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" I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.' "

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" I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. "

" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "

" I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. "

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" There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. "

" 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. "

" It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable. "

" If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote. "

" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "

" A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. "

" If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. "

" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "

" My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' "

" I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. "

" A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. "

" I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "

" I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people. "

" Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. "

" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "

" A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. "

" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "

" When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. "

" I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. "