“I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.”

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

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.

But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.

There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.

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.

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.

It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.

So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.

When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

I feel great. I’m right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I’ve had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.