You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.