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When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in Sapporo, Japan, called Precious Hall, which has kind of a custom sound system with a much lower ceiling and a smaller room.

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There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

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For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.

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I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

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I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

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Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

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To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.

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I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.

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A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine - it's part of not being totally insane.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 4th, 1970

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