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"I try not to do anything by formula."
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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
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"Under each formula lies a corpse."
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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."
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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."
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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."
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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."
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"I try not to do anything by formula."
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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
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"I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through."
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"We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not."
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"Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist."
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"The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it."
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"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream."
Life

"I like music because it's the only invisible art form."
Art

"For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day."
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"Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work."
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"I like songs that go to different places and then come back."
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"I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person."
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