Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

The music is a continuing thing.

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.

To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Never believe your eyes

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.