I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

We're staying together, " he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.