The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.

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.

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.

The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

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

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