Music is so visual now.

I always try to hit a few areas when I'm making a record; I want the sounds to be experimental and exploratory, I want the drumming to be distinctive, and I want my voice to be able to shine through.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.

I like to highlight people's superpowers.

I'm a big fan of new production techniques and new sounds. That's kind of what has been my focus out here; making sure that the songs can stand away from the production, however it's produced.

The more uncomfortable I feel, that's where I know the magic is.

Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair.

Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.

Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.