Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride.

There are orphans who can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake; for it brings them more work than they care to do, leaving them but little time for their own pleasure.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.