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" I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "

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" In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense! "

" I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. "

" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "

" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "

" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "

" I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "

" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "

" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "

" I've never had writer's block. "

" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "

" With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. "

" Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. "

" When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another. "

" I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? "

" It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? "

" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "

" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "

" Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. "

" Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. "

" Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. "

" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

" We live in ugly times. "

" I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. "

" It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. "

" Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "

" There's more good music being made now than ever before. "