One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the Catcher in the Rye' and 'Harry Potter'?

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.