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" My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. "

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" I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. "

" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "

" A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. "

" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "

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

" I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. "

" Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous. "

" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "

" 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.' "

" No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! "

" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "

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

" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "

" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "

" I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music. "

" As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. "

" You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great. "

" There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast. "

" I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. "

" Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. "

" I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own. "

" One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you. "

" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "

" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "

" I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance. "

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

" 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. "

" In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. "

" 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. "

" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "