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" 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. "

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" In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. "

" I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' "

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

" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "

" I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run. "

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

" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "

" Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion. "

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

" 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. "

" I love going on tour and playing music for people. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.' "

" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "

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

" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "

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

" There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. "

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

" For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel. "

" My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' "