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La Is Such A Crumbling Mess Of A City. Basically In All My Years Of Travelling, I Haven't Found Another City In The Western World That Interest Me As Much As Los Angeles - Which Might Sound Like Heresy, But Most Cities, History Has Already Happened And The People Living There Are Sort Of Living On The Bones Of The Thousand Years Of History That's Already Happened There. Whereas La Is Always Reinventing Itself.

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La Is Such A Crumbling Mess Of A City. Basically In All My Years Of Travelling, I Haven't Found Another City In The Western World That Interest Me As Much As Los Angeles - Which Might Sound Like Heresy, But Most Cities, History Has Already Happened And The People Living There Are Sort Of Living On The Bones Of The Thousand Years Of History That's Already Happened There. Whereas La Is Always Reinventing Itself.

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Since I Stopped Drinking My Love Life Has Taken A Really Serious Hit. Romantic Encounters That Seemed Like A Really Good Idea At Three O'clock In The Morning On The Lower East Side? Less So In Sobriety.

In A Perfect World, I Would Be 6-foot-3 And Have A Perfect Head Of Hair And Look Like Orlando Bloom.

Research Performed On Animals Is, By Definition, Scientifically Unsound.

I Love It When Celebrities Fall Apart.

I Sort Of Use As My Guiding Principle That Show The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin. Whenever Possible, Do The Stupid Thing.

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For Me The Two Biggest Issues Are Climate Change And Animal Welfare/animal Agriculture. And Oddly Enough Animal Agriculture Is Such A Contributor To Climate Change. According To The United Nations, 25% Of Climate Change Comes From Animal Agriculture, So Every Car, Bus, Boat, Truck, Airplane Combined Has Less Co2 And Methane Emissions Than Animal Agriculture.

I Love Thich Nhat Hahn. One Of My Favorite Quotes Of His (and I’m Paraphrasing), He’s Talking About Cultivating Happiness, And He Was Saying, At The Very Least, Just Be Happy You’re Not At The Dentist Right Now. He Was Talking To Someone Who Was Having A Really Hard Time Finding Joy.

Over Time, I Started Becoming More Aware Of The Vastness And Complexity Of The Universe, Which Led Me Away From Any Sort Of Conventional Christianity. I Still Love The Teachings Of Christ, But I Also Believe That The Human Condition Prevents Us From Having Any True Objective Knowledge Of The Universe. All Human Belief Systems Are Inherently Flawed. If I Had To Label Myself Now, I'd Call Myself A Taoist-christian-agnostic Quantum Mechanic. Also, There's Nothing In The Actual Bible That Limits A Christian In Their Interest In Science. Anti-science Is A Function Of Ignorant Fundamentalism.

We Live In This Culture Where There Are So Many Things That Want Us To Pretend That We’re Not Truly Human. That We Can Be Exempt From The Human Condition, Either Through Intelligence Or Accomplishment Or Success Or Humor. Bu Biologically We’re All The Same. We All Get Sad, We All Get Happy, And We All Die. Anyone Who Pretends That That’s Not The Case Is Either A Sociopath Or Utterly Delusional.

I Like The Humility That Comes From Being Hated. Hopefully Some Humility And Compassion Comes Out Of That.

I Wish I Could Sing. I Don't Technically Have A Terrible Voice, But It's Certainly Not As Good As Most Of My Friends. Whenever I Hear Myself On A Record, It Just Reminds Me I'm Not A Very Good Singer.

I Like Singing, But It's Certainly Not My Strong Point.

It's A Very Strange Phenomenon Being Hated By People You've Never Met. Some Journalists Just Seem To Hate Me And Everything I Do, And It's Disconcerting Because I've Never Met This Person.

All Of Us Little Bald White Guys Wearing Glasses Kind Of Look The Same.

So In 1987 I Gave Up All Animal Products And Became A Vegan. Simply So That I Could Eat And Live In Accordance With My Beliefs That Animals Have Their Own Lives, That They're Entitled To Their Own Lives And That Contributing To Animal Suffering Is Something That I Don't Want To Be A Part Of.

The Average Life Expectancy Of A Celebrity Is 20 Years Less Than Someone Working In A Coal Mine.

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.

Personally I Find The Democratic Chaos Of The Internet Fascinating, And For The Most Part Really Benign.

I’ve Been Making Electronic Music For Twenty Some Odd Years But, Because I Grew Up Playing In Punk Rock Bands, When I Started Touring, I Thought In Order To Be A Viable Touring Musician I Had To Do It With A Band. I Would Dj Or Tour With A Full Rock Band.

I Believe That To Knowingly Commit Actions That Cause Or Condone Suffering Is Reprehensible In The Extreme. I Call Upon You To Be Compassionate And Treat Others As You Want To Be Treated. If You Don't Want To Be Beaten, Imprisoned, Mutilated, Killed Or Tortured Then You Shouldn't Condone Such Behavior Towards Anyone, Be They Human Or Not.

There Are Viable (and Usually Better) Alternatives To The Use Of Animals For Food, Sport, Clothing, & Experimentation. I Beg You To Discontinue Any Actions That Might Cause Or Condone Animal Torture, Abuse, Or Destruction.

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