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

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

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.