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" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "

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

" I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business. "

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

" In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. "

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

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

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" If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. "

" 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. "

" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "

" 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. "

" You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great. "

" 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. "

" What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. "

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" There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast. "

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

" I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful. "

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" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "

" I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music. "

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

" I love going on tour and playing music for people. "

" There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to. "

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" 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. "