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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."
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"When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines."
Genius

"I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche."
Mission

"The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things."
Home

"You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record."
Inspirational

"There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released."
Change

"We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one."
People

"Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side."
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"In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments."
People

"I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by."
Life

"In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs."
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