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" The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information. "

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" 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. "

" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

" One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. "

" 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'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. "

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

" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "

" 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. "

" It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. "

" On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. "

" Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "

" The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. "

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

" Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. "

" 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. "

" With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. "

" The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert. "

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

" My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. "

" I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. "

" The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. "

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

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

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

" There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop. "