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" I've never had writer's block. "

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" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "

" Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. "

" So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame. "

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

" I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "

" Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down. "

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

" I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either. "

" I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it. "

" If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. "

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

" One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune. "

" Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. "

" With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. "

" I'm guarded; I don't talk much. "

" I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. "

" I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. "

" The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. "

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

" Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. "

" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "

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

" Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. "

" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

" 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? "

" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "