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" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "
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" I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. "
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" I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. "
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" As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives. "
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" There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. "
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" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "
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" When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. "
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" 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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" I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. "
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" One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. "
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" The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. "
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" As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. "
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" Traffic terrifies me. "
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" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "
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" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "
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" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "
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" Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. "
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" For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. "
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" I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. "
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" David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. "
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" I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. "
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" In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ. "
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" Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. "
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" As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. "
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" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "
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" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "
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" I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. "
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" Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance. "
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" But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. "
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" In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. "
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" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "
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