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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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" The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics. "

" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. "

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

" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "

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

" 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. "

" There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. "

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

" Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. "

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

" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "

" As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. "

" At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. "

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

" There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. "

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

" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "

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

" 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. "

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

" 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. "

" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "

" 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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" If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. "

" 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. "