If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

I think a lot of people misinterpret what I'm doing because they think of it as just a joke or they think of it as disposable.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood there is no such word As fail.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.