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

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" I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. "

" If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. "

" It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person. "

" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "

" I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. "

" I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. "

" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "

" In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. "

" Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. "

" 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. "

" The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it. "

" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

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

" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "

" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "

" 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. "

" I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. "

" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "

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

" The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. "

" If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability. "

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

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

" If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote. "

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

" In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. "

" I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. "

" I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer. "

" Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. "

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