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" I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. "

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" Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on. "

" I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. "

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

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

" I don't like begging money from producers. "

" I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes. "

" Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. "

" There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. "

" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "

" I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. "

" Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so. "

" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "

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

" There's more good music being made now than ever before. "

" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "

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

" It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. "

" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "

" There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. "

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

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

" When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. "

" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "

" I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' "

" Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? "

" We live in ugly times. "

" From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little. "

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

" As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable. "