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

" A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. "

" I love it when celebrities fall apart. "

" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "

" I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' "

" For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer. "

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

" I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?' "

" If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability. "

" I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.' "

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

" I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. "

" 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. "

" If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes. "

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

" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "

" I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people. "

" If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame. "

" 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'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. "

" When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. "

" I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people. "

" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "

" 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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" You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming. "

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