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" The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? "

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" 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. "

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

" Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. "

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

" I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. "

" People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. "

" We tend to mistake music for the physical object. "

" I've got nothing to say most of the time. "

" You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. "

" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "

" I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know. "

" Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes. "

" 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. "

" It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. "

" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "

" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "

" I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. "

" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "

" Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. "

" I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. "

" I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. "

" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "

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

" When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. "

" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "

" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

" 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. "

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