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I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.
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 don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.
I honestly haven't thought much about what to play and where, perhaps i should ... it seems like most musicians are better at that than I am.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
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.
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.
I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
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.
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.
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.
I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.
My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.
All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.
In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
When I became a vegan in 1987, in one fell swoop I extended my life expectancy and annoyed most of the people in my life - my mom most of all.
People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.
My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.
I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.
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.
Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.
The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what's gonna happen.
To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
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.
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.
Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.
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.
Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.
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.
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.
The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.
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.
I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.