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" That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife. "

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" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "

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

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

" I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst. "

" 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. "

" I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. "

" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "

" I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. "

" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "

" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "

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

" I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. "

" It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day. "

" The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work. "

" 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. "

" If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. "

" I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. "

" If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it. "

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

" I love it when celebrities fall apart. "

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

" A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. "

" Traffic terrifies me. "

" I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free. "

" I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable. "

" If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes. "

" Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance. "

" I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. "