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

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" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "

" I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. "

" Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. "

" When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life. "

" As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives. "

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

" I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. "

" I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. "

" If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great. "

" 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. "

" I love it when celebrities fall apart. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "

" I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-rock record. Of all the records I've made, it's my favorite one. It's also the one that got the worst reviews and sold the worst. "

" If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "