I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.