Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's risingI came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Use your wish, ” I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. “Please.”“If I do, ” he replies softly, “I’ll lose you.

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

When I’m photographing I see life.

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

I love sequencing and programming, and I'm drawn to drum 'n' bass music. I love James Murphy's productions - and hey, he wears my socks!

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.