I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do..

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything wor….

The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Ap….

The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic activity are just moving mon….

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious..

I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and y….

If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you..

One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many pos….

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words.….

I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll….

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read..

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life..

I think we're at a moment in history where all the rules are out the window; it's not about "Here's a single, and then let it build for a couple of m….

In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it d….

To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly t….

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the tru….

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument..

The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind..