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" The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. "

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" 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. "

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" I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. "

" 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. "

" Music is just air moving around. "

" You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great. "

" Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous. "

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

" I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run. "

" I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. "

" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "

" 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. "

" If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote. "

" People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously. "

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

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

" 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. "

" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "

" A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost. "

" Traffic terrifies me. "

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" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "

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

" I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. "

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" Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. "

" I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. "

" I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "

" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "

" But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. "

" 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. "

" I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. "