I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I hope to do a visual for every 
single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

I don’t know if I’m a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. 
 I was like, ‘Mum, it hurts.’

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I just try to keep my dignity and carry on with my day.

I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

What transforms us is not what we do but our integration with WHAT IS.