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" I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. "

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" More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is. "

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

" Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign. "

" 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. "

" I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. "

" Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. "

" It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. "

" I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt? "

" I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes. "

" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "

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

" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "

" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable. "

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

" 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. "

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

" New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy. "

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