When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.