I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.

I accidentally produced a Willow Smith track!

I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.

Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.

If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.

Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

I'd rather have Prada shoes than eat.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.

God won't tie your soul to a dead-end dream.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.