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" I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. "

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" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

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

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

" In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. "

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

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

" 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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" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

" No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! "

" I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?' "

" That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife. "

" 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. "

" Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet. "

" Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. "

" I love it when celebrities fall apart. "

" When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it. "

" For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer. "

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

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

" 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. "

" But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. "

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

" It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "

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