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

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" Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. "

" Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. "

" I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. "

" We live in ugly times. "

" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "

" 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. "

" Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. "

" Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. "

" 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. "

" The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. "

" 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. "

" People use irony as a defense mechanism. "

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

" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

" I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? "

" Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols. "

" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "

" Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" 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 couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. "

" Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. "

" People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper. "

" I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be. "

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

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