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" Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach. "

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" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs. "

" If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. "

" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "

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

" I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. "

" It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable. "

" Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. "

" Music is just air moving around. "

" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "

" When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life. "

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

" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "

" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "

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

" A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. "

" You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming. "

" People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. "

" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "

" 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. "

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

" For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music. "

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

" 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. "

" There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed. "

" 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. "

" I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste. "