I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

Up until the rise of electronic music, if you were a musician in Portugal or Germany or Italy or Japan, and you didn't sing in English, you really were limited: You could be successful in the country where people understood your language. The world of electronic music is completely international. You have DJs from Finland making huge records for people in New Zealand, DJs in South Korea making huge records for people in France. By the fact that it doesn't cost anything to make, and that it transcends language, nation it accidentally accomplishes a lot of really remarkable things.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.