If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.

What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.