"We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers."

-- Jacque Fresco

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“With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.”
“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -- that without intelligence we should be brutes -- but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”
“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.”
“There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11”

Source : Isa Chandra Moskowitz (2011). “Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes”, p.11, Da Capo Press
“I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.
“I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.”
“No, dance is not a monster.Â The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side.Â And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.”
“I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.”

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