Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!

My nerves will come when I have to take off my top.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.

It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.