I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

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.

One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

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.