Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

Donald Trump is a bully who thrives on division.

Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.