"If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important."
"It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do you have left? How do you want to spend it? What I always come up with is: keep on writing, keep on working. But you can become sterile. It's become a matter of trying to find inspiration someplace outside of my own head, which I've been using exclusively for too long."
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Source: Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
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