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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized.

Taste is the common sense of genius.