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" You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car. "

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" Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration. "

" I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. "

" Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head. "

" I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. "

" In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense! "

" Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. "

" I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes. "

" I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it. "

" People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. "

" On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town. "

" I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. "

" Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle. "

" I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. "

" I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. "

" Physical contact is a human necessity. "

" When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. "

" I've never had writer's block. "

" I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. "

" Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. "

" Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. "

" I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it. "

" I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. "

" I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me. "

" I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. "

" I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. "

" I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff. "

" I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit. "

" Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. "

" I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. "

" Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory. "