I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. 
 I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.