If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.