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

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" Traffic terrifies me. "

" A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost. "

" 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. "

" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "

" People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. "

" 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. "

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

" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "

" I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "

" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "

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

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

" I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. "

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

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

" When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. "

" 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. "

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

" I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. "

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

" 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. "

" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "

" 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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