Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

You need to study, to examine deeply the field you are interested in

Learning continuously is the best way to build one's intellectual capacity.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.

Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me

Ivanka Trump is for climate change. Ivanka is all for single-parent families, and so she's as close to liberal as you're gonna get in her dad's inner circle.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.