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" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "

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" 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. "

" When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right. "

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

" When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person. "

" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "

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

" I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. "

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" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

" I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own. "

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

" There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing. "

" I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. "

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

" 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. "

" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "

" People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously. "

" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "