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" That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. "

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

" Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better. "

" 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. "

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "

" 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. "

" I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. "

" I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. "

" I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. "

" I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. "

" 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. "

" To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. "

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

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

" I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. "

" 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. "

" I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either. "

" Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. "

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

" I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. "

" There's more good music being made now than ever before. "

" Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. "

" I love getting out of my comfort zone. "

" Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. "

" 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. "

" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "

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

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