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" I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. "

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" Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. "

" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "

" Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. "

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

" That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. "

" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "

" When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. "

" I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. "

" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "

" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "

" I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "

" 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! "

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

" In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "

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

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

" Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. "

" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "

" To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. "

" 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? "

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

" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "

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

" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "

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

" I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will. "