Sleep is crucial and I tend to find when the sun is shining I find it much more difficult to get that sense of sleep.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.

What Matters!! Is Grey Matter!

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

Going to the Grammys, being nominated for a Grammy, that was a really big deal for me, for us as a band.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.