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• ‟ I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

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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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• ‟ My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.

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• ‟ One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.

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• ‟ The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.

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• ‟ The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.

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• ‟ I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

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• ‟ I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.

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• ‟ Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

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• ‟ I got a phone message from Janet Jackson saying, 'Hi, I love 'Losing My Edge', can you do me something funky and dirty like that?' I can't really do off-the-peg stuff, so I never called back.

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