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" You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. "

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" I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car. "

" Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional. "

" I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. "

" One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune. "

" I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. "

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

" I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. "

" Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. "

" Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet. "

" 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. "

" Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. "

" I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. "

" Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively. "

" 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 subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? "

" I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster. "

" The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert. "

" PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows. "

" It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. "

" Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. "

" Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label. "

" I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same. "

" One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. "

" People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them. "

" Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around. "

" 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. "