I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

How wondrous familiar is a fool!

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

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.