"When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden."
"When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song."
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Source: The Question Concerning Technology. Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.
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