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

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" I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. "

" I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. "

" Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. "

" 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. "

" Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. "

" Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. "

" Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop. "

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

" You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly. "

" I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant. "

" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "

" 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. "

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

" On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. "

" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "

" You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. "

" I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. "

" When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. "

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

" With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters. "

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

" People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. "

" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "

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

" In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense! "

" 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. "

" I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. "