What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

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.

La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5

People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.

Why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?

I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.

The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.