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John Conant Flansburgh (born May 6, 1960) is an American musician. He is half of the long-standing Brooklyn, New York-based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings, and plays rhythm guitar.

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Bill O'Reilly knew he could just filibuster and enjoy all the airtime that a full interview would give him, and then also grab the sensationalist headlines that he enjoys creating. He used this as fodder for his show for weeks. I wouldn't want to be on the bad side of Bill O'Reilly. But then again, maybe I am now. By giving this interview.

Airtime, Enjoy, Giving, Interview, Used, Week

In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes.

Hard, Interviews, Said, Tired, Way

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

Good, Good Times, Hell, World, Worlds

Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot. " A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you. " And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity. "

Actually, Fidelity, Fun, Thinking, Top, Wife

We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.

Alive, Longer, People, Reading

When we're on tour, probably we don't go 24 hours without someone asking us where we came up with the name They Might Be Giants. Which, on one level, seems like a completely legitimate question. If I think of other bands, like The Beatles, it would explain to me that John Lennon had a proclivity for slightly cheap puns. But I'm not sure how much insight that would give me into what's actually good about The Beatles' music.

Came, Giants, Giving, Hours, Legitimate, Thinking

To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

Angel, Angels, Faith, Matter, People

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

Song, Thirty, Wrote, Year, Years

Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys. " We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than us. Fortunately, we've held on to our manly good looks.

Aging, Bands, Brooklyn, Guy, Lucky, Seat

Actually, on a slightly more serious but kind of parallel level, I remember being on Loveline before both hosts ascended into loftier places in the culture. But I remember being shocked by Dr. Drew. He went into this extended monologue about how anyone with a baby voice is probably the victim of child abuse or has some daddy issue. As an intellectually curious person, all I could think is that there isn't any clinical evidence about that. But to be the guy wearing the doctor's hat on the radio and teaching everybody about this? It just seemed like a parody of good advice.

Baby, Children, Curious, Everybody, Guy, Teaching

This happened years and years ago, right as our videos were first being played on MTV. The interviewer said, "You guys are getting famous now. Are you going to be riding around in limousines, doing drugs, and sleeping with beautiful women?" And I was a precocious young man, and my snappy comeback to that cheerful question was, "We're willing to sleep with beautiful women. " But no part of the question was in the article.

Beautiful, Drugs, Men, Sleep, Videos, Willing

There is a fact-based belief system available to you if you want to believe in facts. But this is the weirdest time. I mean, after Nixon I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Reagan, and after Reagan I thought nothing could be weirder. Then there was Bush and Bush's son, and it all just seemed like nothing could be a badder joke than George W. Bush. And now we're here. It seems to just yo-yo around, but hopefully we'll get to another level.

Believe, Mean, Nixon, Son

Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

Look, Look Up, Looks, Sky

There's so many simple things that can be done to change our carbon footprint, and to reduce our carbon footprint.

Simple, Done, Footprint

All rock music is fake news.

Fake, Music Is, News, Rock, Rock Music

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Discourse, Musician, Place, Political, Sort

If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is always looking for better explanations to everything, but that doesn't mean that when we get on a plane we don't know what's supposed to happen next. And if it doesn't go the way that it's planned, that's a big, big problem. The culture wars are very tricky and make me a little sad.

Believe, Mean, Planned, Supposed, Tricky, War

You're like, "I don't want to argue with Dr. Drew on national radio. " You're like the invited guest. But at the same time, as a thinking person, it's very difficult just to stand by and go, "Yeah, man, it's cool. "

Arguing, Cool, Like, Men, Same, Thinking

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"

Facebook, Like, Music, Response, Things, Times

We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often to describe big bands. Our job isn't to pigeonhole ourselves or describe where we fit in. Our goal isn't to fit in. Our goal is to be free of all that stuff.

Describe, Express, Fit, Goal, Interesting, Job

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