You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.
We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else’s will involuntarily forced upon you.
Better a loving single-parent family than a ‘conventional’ family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.
If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn’t condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.
I see ‘Ahab’s Wife’ as offering an alternative vision to.
I’m like a monk with a taste for hookers.
I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that’s being created, but there’s also the magic of the fact that you’re essentially creating something from nothing.
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I’m not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn’t too rigorous or challenging.
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it’s not interesting to blame genetics.
I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself when I’m writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I’m not too worried.
How wondrous familiar is a fool!
Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.
If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.
I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We’re just not bright enough.
If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I’d be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.
Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it’s better than working at Burger King.
The most emotional part is when I go into my studio every day and pretty much never have an idea of what’s gonna happen.
I wanted to have a title that wasn’t in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for ‘dix-huit’ or the someone in Japan could ask for ‘juhachi.’