You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Voice is my instrument.

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

I want to privilege the moment.

There are no important media outlets in the US that are not owned or controlled by Jews.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.