The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

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.

Peace of mind is power of being.

Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.