“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”
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“I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.”
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“With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.”
Music“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”
Beauty“Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.”
Attitude“I don't like begging money from producers.”
Money“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
Architecture“It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.”
Art“There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.”
Car“I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.”
Music“We tend to mistake music for the physical object.”
Music“Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?”
Future“So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.”
Music“I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
Business“You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.”
Music“Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.”
Business“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.”
Music“The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.”
Music“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 kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'”
Politics“I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.”
Car“If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.”
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