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" I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. "

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" I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business. "

" What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time. "

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

" Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' "

" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "

" 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. "

" As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. "

" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love it when celebrities fall apart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance. "

" I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt? "

" 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. "

" Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. "

" NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside. "

" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "

" I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. "

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

" If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it. "

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

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

" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "