Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.

Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

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

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.