If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.