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I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.
The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.
When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.
It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.
For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.
In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.
When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.
I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.
If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.
For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.
Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
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.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.
People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.
I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.
I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.
When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.
I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.
The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.
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.
My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.
I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.
The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.