I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.