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“I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.”

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“I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.”

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“From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.”

Jobs Style Folks Dots Telegraph

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“I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.”

People Made States Law Realizing Happened Sells Wine Beer Suspects

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“There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.”

Ifs Knows Way Done Purpose Certain Humanity Magic Lucky Findings Late

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“I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.”

People Knows Ideas Artist Community Support Responsible Tables Brave Discussion

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“If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.”

Ifs College Drug Campus College Campus Stop And Frisk

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“I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.”

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“There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.”

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“Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.”

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