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 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.

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 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.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.

Lack of money is no poverty.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.