We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

It's nice to be able to forget.

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don’t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.