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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. "

" 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. "

" I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. "

" 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. "

" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "

" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "

" I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. "

" I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste. "

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" I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free. "

" New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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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" As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. "

" My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. "

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" When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. "

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