There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

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

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.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.