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" There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. "

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" 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. "

" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "

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

" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "

" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "

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

" I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay. "

" It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person. "

" One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. "

" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "

" It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently. "

" 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. "

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" It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel. "

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" I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. "

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" For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. "

" I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer. "

" Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet. "