When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.

I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.