“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.”

But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.

Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.

You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.

I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.

Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.

And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.

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

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.

The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.

“It’s not where you got it from, it’s where you take it.” To me, that’s just an integral part of why I even bother making music.

it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.

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

I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.

I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.

I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.