I usually find stuff that I hope no one really knows or cares about. If I'm ripping off something that's already brilliant, what's the point?

It's nice to just do my hobby and be able to live.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work

When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.

I have a new nickname for Dottie. She's now the Crazy Whisperer.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.