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" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "

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" There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. "

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

" 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. "

" I love going on tour and playing music for people. "

" Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. "

" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "

" I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. "

" In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ. "

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

" 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. "

" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "

" If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. "

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

" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment. "

" The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. "

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

" I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep. "

" The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' "

" David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. "

" 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 buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "

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

" When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. "

" As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. "

" 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. "

" What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time. "