It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.