Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.

I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all.

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them

In my mind I still qualify as punk, though I know four out of five punks would disagree.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.