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" The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. "

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" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "

" 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. "

" The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. "

" The arts don't exist in isolation. "

" The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. "

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

" So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame. "

" I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. "

" 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. "

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

" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "

" Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms. "

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

" From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little. "

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

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

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

" Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? "

" I'm guarded; I don't talk much. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. "

" 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've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. "