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"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."
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"But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt."
"There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir."
"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"
"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day."
"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."
"I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed."
"There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that."
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