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- From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really…
- 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…
- My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
- Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
- I don't like begging money from producers.
- I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
- I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
- People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
- 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…
- When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
- I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that…
- 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,…
- Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm…
- I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live…
- I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is…
- I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
- Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can…
- By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close…
- Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
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